2 Third-Wave Visions: Technology as Social Transformer 23 New ICT and social
transformation 23 From 'new IT'to 'new ICT': archaeology and definitions of key terms 25 …

This book is about democracy and communication. The media and popular culture are often
identified as bearing primary responsibility for the decline of active citizenship and the decay …

This chapter represents a narrative,'women and the Internet', as a women and technology
origin story with a fixed beginning, a contested centre and an open ending. This chapter …

This study examines issues arising from the popular social use of the cell phone. Data were
collected in one of the world's leaders in adopting the telephone, Hong Kong. Findings of a …

This chapter investigates how and why the topic of the public sphere, or publicness more
broadly, is important for the ways in which political geography conceptualizes democratic …

Internet research has become a “field” in its own right in the social sciences, already
boasting a number of peer-reviewed journals, a plethora of book titles, and an international …

Misbehavior in Cyber Places studies computer-mediated, interpersonal communication on
the Internet up to the turn of the century, portraying a technological universe that existed …

The LACS project (Language Associations and Collaborative Support) marked the first
major cooperation between the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML) and the …

In this chapter, I want to make a case for the continuing importance of the concept of the
public sphere for helping us to understand the role that media and communications play in …

This article focuses on the potential of the multilingual city to create spaces in which
monolingual hegemonies may be challenged, inclusive, intercultural values may be …