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Technological Determinism and Social Change: Communication in a Tech-Mad World

Technological Determinism and Social Change: Communication in a Tech-Mad World

Bau, Valentina
Brough, Melissa
Hartley, John

Hardcover

Series: Communication, Globalization, and Cultural Identity

General Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0739191241
ISBN13: 9780739191248
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Dec 26 2014
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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