Maintaining Community In The Information Age
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Maintaining Community in the Information Age
By exploring the experiences of community activists and organizations working with information and communication technology (ICT) to build communities, this book offers a grounded and informed study of the role ICT plays in people's lives. The author emphasizes the importance of networks built around trust, shared spaces and local knowledge bases in the formation of significant relationships in contemporary Western societies and in doing so, questions many of the assumptions which inform the rhetorics of the information age.
Towards a Knowledge Society
Author: Debal K. SinghaRoy
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2014-10-16
This book studies how the knowledge society has created new conditions of marginalities while empowering people through new age connectivity.
Personal Connections in the Digital Age
The internet & the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves & our relationships, raising anxieties & hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles of digital media in personal relationships.