Product Description: ‘The information society’ refers to a constellation of developments arising from the growing use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information, and the role of information in supporting the creation and exchange of knowledge...read more

Product Description: This fascinating book gathers together an enviable range of experts from a variety of disciplines to study how trust and crime interact with new digital technologies. It provides a critical discussion on the prospects of the Internet and on the future of crime and crime prevention...read more

Product Description: IOS Press is an international science, technical and medical publisher of high-quality books for academics, scientists, and professionals in all fields. Some of the areas we publish in: -Biomedicine -Oncology -Artificial intelligence -Databases and information systems -Maritime engineering -Nanotechnology -Geoengineering -All aspects of physics -E-governance -E-commerce -The knowledge economy -Urban studies -Arms control -Understanding and responding to terrorism -Medical informatics -Computer Science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

What does it mean to live and work inside the information and communication technology revolution? Drawing upon cognitive, economic, management, political, and sociological theories, this book focuses on the nature and significance of newly-emerging patterns of social and technical interaction as digital technologies become more pervasive in the knowledge economy.

Product Description: This book provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. Drawing upon unique empirical data, this book lays the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, and more effective strategies and policies for increasing the benefits from the Information Society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Knowledge Societies contains a wealth of information and commentary on the social and economic benefits and risks of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for developing countries. It offers unique policy-oriented perspectives on three major sets of issues - constructing and accessing the ICT infrastructure, building capabilities and skills for producing or using ICTs and services, and preparing the framework of strategies, policies, and regulations that will help to ensure that developing countries can move towards innovative "knowledge societies" that support their development goals...read more

Product Description: Book by Crede, Andreas, Mansell, Robin (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The information and communication technologies (ICTs) of the 1990s enable the electronic production and consumption of increasingly vast quantities of information. The effects are likely to be both unpredictable and contradictory, and will have consequences for business, governments, organizations, and citizens...read more

The dynamics of change in the electronic communication environment are examined in this broad-ranging analysis. Robin Mansell's study encompasses the political, economic and technical factors contributing to the future of telecommunication networks. It explores the consequences of policy decisions and design choices in the creation of intelligent networks. At the same time, the author demonstrates how both policies and technical aspects are themselves shaped by actors in the telecommunications sector. Outlining developments in the industry in the late 1980s and 1990s in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Sweden, the author shows how new technical, institutional and market arrangements are reshaping the t