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Normative Theory of the Information Society

Alistair S. Duff
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crisis
democracy
Difference Principle
Digital Divide
digital policy analysis
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Fabius Maximus
Federal Bureau Of Investigation
FOI Request
Good Life
goods
information ethics
Information Infrastructure
Information Justice
Information Society
Information Society Studies
Information Society Theorists
Information Society Thesis
Ithiel De Sola Pool
Journalistic Conception
media regulation
Normative Crisis
normative frameworks for digital societies
Normative Theory
policy
post-industrial society
Postindustrial Society
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principle
Quintus Fabius Maximus
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social
social democracy theory
Social Democratic Thought
Social Engineer
Social Engineering
Statism Flickers
Statist Social Engineering
technological determinism critique
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Utopian Social Engineering

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415955713
  • Weight: 470g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 28 Nov 2011
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based societies. He argues that information policy needs to become anchored in a left-liberal philosophy which foregrounds a feasible permutation of the core ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood. The information society, if it is to be worth having at all, cannot be allowed to be largely the outcome of the free play of market forces and technological determinism. The social structure, including the information economy, must be subjected to a regulatory axiological system as explicated by some leading proponents of social democracy. This text will be of interest to scholars and students at the cutting edge of information studies, journalism and media, computer science, sociology, politics, philosophy, management and law.
About Alistair S. Duff
Dr. Alistair Duff is reader in information and journalism at Edinburgh Napier University and a member of its Centre for Social Informatics. With a multidisciplinary background, he has published in a wide range of media on the social role of information. His monograph Information Society Studies was published in 2000 by Routledge.

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