The Internet, Power and Society: Rethinking the Power of the Internet to Change Lives

By Marcus Leaning

An exciting challenge to how the internet and ICT have been understood in academia and popular culture and shows how important ‘cultural’ assumptions are in how we understand technology. The Internet, Power and Society argues that the way in which we view technology such as the internet owes much to older, historic views of the media and to ‘issues’ in contemporary society. Such perspectives are deeply rooted in a Western view of technology and the book concludes by offering a radically new perspective as to how the internet can change a society that is truly global in its application.

• An original approach to ICT and the Internet that challenges the orthodoxy
• Very topical subject matter - the book addresses many of the issues regarded of key import in high level political discussions (such as the World Summit on the Information Society); the current understanding of ICT and how to move beyond this interpretation
• An approach that moves the debate forward and offers a truly global way of understanding the Internet and ICT

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: Aug 30, 2009
• ISBN: 9781780631684

Marcus Leaning

Dr Marcus leaning is Senior Fellow in Media and Information Literacy in the School of Media and Film at the University of Winchester in the UK. A sociologist by training he researches in the fields of digital media, media and information education and other selected topics. He is the author of The Internet, power and Society: Rethinking the Power of the Internet to Change Lives, 5 edited collections and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Marcus is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

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