Technological Determinism and Social Change

Communication in a Tech-Mad World

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2014
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-9124-8 (ISBN)

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This book sheds light on the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society by examining specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Columbia, Kenya, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The aim of this book is to shed new light on this theoretically and practically significant issue, and questions the role of technology and culture in social change. It challenges us to reconsider and rethink the impact of new information and communication technologies on civil society, participatory democracy and digital citizenship in theoretical and methodological contributions, through the analysis of specific cases in Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, China, Colombia, Kenya, Netherlands and the United States. Access to information and communication technologies is a necessity, and the importance of access should not be trivialized, but a plea for digital literacy implies recognizing that access is the beginning of ICT policies and not the end of it. Digital literacy requires using the Internet and social media in socially and culturally useful ways aimed at the inclusion of everybody in the emerging information/knowledge society. Technology matters, but people matter more.

Jan Servaes is chair professor and head of the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong.

Part 1: Appetizers
Chapter 1: The Same Old Theory, the Same Old Quick Fix. But Please add Efficacy to the Mix
Chapter 2: From Ubicomp to Ubiex(pectations)
Chapter 3: On Living in a Techno-Globalised World. Questions of history and geography
Chapter 4: Intercultural Communication for Development in a Buddhist Perspective

Part 2: Arguments
Chapter 5: Technological Innovation and Social Change
Chapter 6: Cultural Values and Digital Networks as Predictors of Sustainable Democratic Development
Chapter 7: Being Meaningfully Mobile. Mobile phones and development
Chapter 8: Digital technology and the construction of “glocal” information flows. Social movements and social media in the age of sustainability
Chapter 9: A Trojan Horse in the city of stories? Storytelling and the creation of the polity

Part 3: Applications
Chapter 10: Communicating Neoliberal Development. A Critical Analysis of Grameen Bank Programs for Women
Chapter 11: Visual Technology, Youth Interventions and Participation. Two Cases from the Netherlands
Chapter 12: Analytical Antidotes to Technological Determinism. Learning from (Digital) Citizenship and Participation in Medellín, Colombia
Chapter 13: Video Technologies and Participatory Approaches to Peace. From technological determinism to self-empowerment and social change: An experience from Kenya
Chapter 14: Tiger Gate. A case study from China

Part 4: A + A + A
By way of Conclusion: People matter

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.12.2014
Reihe/Serie	Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
Co-Autor	Valentina Bau, Melissa Brough, John Hartley, Ellen Hommel
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations; Tables; Charts
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 237 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7391-9124-1 / 0739191241
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-9124-8 / 9780739191248
Zustand	Neuware