The Cybercities Reader is the most comprehensive, international and interdisciplinary analysis yet of the relationships between cities, urban life and new technologies. The book incorporates detailed discussions of cybercity history, theory, economic processes, mobilities, physical forms, social and cultural worlds, digital divides, public domains, strategies, politics and futures. It includes coverage of post modern technoculture, virtual reality and the body, global city economies, urban surveillance, E-Commerce, teleworking, community informatics, digital architecture, urban technology strategies, and the role of cities and new technologies in the 'war on terrorism'. Detailed case-studies include 'virtual cities' in Amsterdam, Internet cabins in Lima, back offices in Jamaica, 'smart' highways in Melbourne, technopoles in New York, mobiles in Helsinki, e-commerce convenience stores in Tokyo, high-tech business parks in Bangalore, public spaces in Mexico City, and urban ICT strategies in Kuala Lumpur, California and Singapore.
The Cybercities Reader has 31 of the best published writings in the field and 32 specially commissioned pieces, with the work from writers from 12 nations and 12 disciplines and over 50 pictures, tables, and diagrams.

In his 1989 book, Fast Capitalism, Ben Agger presented a framework for understanding late-20th century social problems. Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, a sequel to his earlier book, assesses social changes since the end of the 1980s brought about by information technologies such as the Internet, which have quickened the pace of everyday life. In Speeding Up Fast Capitalism, Agger assesses the impact of the Internet on consciousness, communication, culture and community, and evaluates the prospects of democratic social change. Where the earlier book was largely theoretical, Speeding Up applies critical theory to specific topics such as Internet culture, work, families, childhood, schooling, food, the body, and fitness. Although indebted to Fast Capitalism, the sequel appeals to an audience wider than theorists, including empirical sociologists, social scientists, and scholars in cultural disciplines.

The internet could have been purpose-built for fostering the growth of the social movements and citizen initiatives which have had such a significant impact on the political landscape since the 1990s. In "Cyberprotest" the contributors explore the effects of this synergy between ICTs (Information Communication Technologies) and people power, analysing the implications for politics and social policy at both a national and a global level. Through a number of different international examples answers are sought to questions such as: to what extent and in what forms do social movements use ICTs?; how do new ICTs facilitate new patterns and forms of citizen mobilization?; how does this use affect the relationship between social movements and their members?; how do ICTs change the way social movement organizations communicate with each other?; and how do they affect the way these movements mobilize and intervene in public debates and political conflicts?

This authoritative landmark text examines the highly topical and important issue of ICT in literacy learning. Its distinctive focus on providing a systematic review of research in the field gives the reader an essential, comprehensive overview. As governments worldwide continue to invest heavily in ICT provisions in educational institutions, this book addresses the need to gather and synthesise evidence about the impact of ICT on literacy learning. An expert team of writers draw upon two recent reports by the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, which highlighted the considerable differences between nations in the access and use of ICT, to take a discursive and expansive look at the subject. Within its wide range and scope, chapters cover areas on: * the history of literacy and ICT * evidence for the effectiveness of ICT on literacy learning * the impact of networked ICT on literacy learning * the relationship between verbal and visual literacies. This book will be an invaluable and informative read with international resonance for student teachers, teachers, academics and researchers worldwide.

Contents:
Introduction 1. Veteran Scholars' Reflections on Marcuse's Theoretical Legacy Marcuse's Legacies; The American Experience of the Critical Theorists; Heidegger and Marcuse: the Catastrophe and Redemption of Technology; Marcuse and the Quest for Radical Subjectivity; Marcuse's Maternal Ethic; Marcuse's Negative Dialectics of Imagination 2. Interpretations of Marcuse's Critical Theory from the Next Generation Herbert Marcuse's Critical Encounter with Martin Heidegger 1927-33; The Theoretical Place of Utopia: Some Remarks on Marcuse's Dual Anthropology; Diatribes and Distortions: Marcuse's Academic Reception; Marcuse, Habermas and the Critique of Technology; The Fate of Emancipated Subjectivity Part 3. Marcuse and Contemporary Ecological Theory Marcuse's Deep-Social Ecology and the Future of Utopian Environmentalism; Marcuse's Ecological Critique and the American Environmental Movement; Marcuse and the "New Science" Part 4. Recollections Herbert Marcuse's Identity; Encountering Marcuse

Contents:
Frank Webster Introduction: Information Society Studies Part 1: The Information Society Frank Webster Introduction Advocates 1. Yoneji Masuda Image of the Future Information Society 2. Charles Leadbeater Living on Thin Air 3. Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth and Alvin Toffler Cyberspace and the American Dream Critics 4. Langdon Winner Who Will We Be in Cyberspace? 5. Theodore Roszak The Cult of Information 6. Kevin Robins and Frank Webster The Long History of the Information Revolution Part 2: Post-Industrial Society Harri Melin Introduction 7. Daniel Bell Post-Industrial Society 8. Krishan Kumar From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society 9. John Urry Is Britain the First Post-Industrial Society? Part 3: The Network Society Frank Webster Introduction 10. Manuel Castells An Introduction to the Information Age 11. Manuel Castells The Information City, the New Economy, and the Network Society 12. Nicholas Garnham Information Society Theory as Ideology Part 4: Transformations Frank Webster Introduction 13. John Urry Mobile Sociology 14. Robert B. Reich The Three Jobs of the Future 15. Nico Stehr The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies 16. Anne Balsamo Forms of Technological Embodiment Part 5: Divisions Kaarle Nordenstreng Introduction 17. Herbert Schiller Data Deprivation 18. Pippa Norris The Digital Divide 19. Christopher Lasch The Degradation of the Practical Arts Part 6: Surveillance Raimo Blom Introduction 20. Michel Foucault Panopticism 21. Shoshana Zuboff Managing the Informated Organization 22. David Lyon New Directions in Theory Part 7: Democracy Erkki Karvonen Introduction 23. Jurgen Habermas The Public Sphere 24. Nicholas Garnham The Media and the Public Sphere 25. John Keane Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere 26. Zizi Papacharissi The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere Part 8: Virtualities Ensio Puoskari Introduction 27. Mark Poster The Mode of Information and Postmodernity 28. Eric Michaels For a Cultural Future 29. Sadie Plant The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics

China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward is a comprehensive assessment of the political and economic impact of information and communication technologies (ITCs) on Chinese society. It provides in-depth analyses of topics including economic development, civil and political liberties, bureaucratic politics, international relations and security studies.
The book covers the aspirations of Chinese policy-makers using the Internet to achieve a 'digital leapfrog' of economic development. Avoiding technical jargon, the book is accessible to anyone interested in the social impact of the Internet and information and communication technologies, from those in academia to business and public policy makers.

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The Internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, cultural and social values, and economic realities. The combination of original research, theoretical innovation and detailed case studies make this an important book for scholars and students in Asian studies, media studies, communication studies and sociology.

Contents:
List of plates List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction : From Dreams of Transcendence to the Remediation of Urban Life Section 1: Understanding Cybercities Part 1: Cybercity Archaeologies 1. Nigel Thrift 1996 Inhuman Geographies: Landscapes of Speed, Light and Power 2. Joel Tarr 1987 The City and The Telegraph: Urban Telecommunications in the Pre-Telephone Era 3. Ithiel de Sola-Pool 1976 The Structure of Cities 4. Melvyn Webber 1964 The Urban Place and the Non-Place Urban Realm From Explorations Into Urban Structure 5. Thomas Streeter 1987 The Cable Fable Revisited: Discourse, Policy and the Making of Cable Television 6. Thomas J. Campanella 2002 Webcameras and the Telepresent Landscape Part 2: Theorising Cybercities 7. Gilles Deleuze 1988 Postscript on Societies of Control 8. Paul Virilio 1987 The Third Interval 9. Manuel Castells 2002 Space of Flows, Space of Places : Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age 10. Lieven de Cauter 2002 The Capsule and the Network : Notes Toward a General Theory 11. Nigel Thrift 1997 Cities Without Modernity, Cites With Magic 12. Deirdre Boden and Harvey Molotch 2002 Cyperspace Meets the Compulsion of Proximity 13. Timothy Luke 2002 The Co-Existence of Cyborgs, Humachines and Environments in Postmodernity: Getting Over the End of Nature Part 3: Cybercities : Hybrid Forms and Recombinant Spaces 14. Stefano Boeri 2002 Eclectic Atlases 15. William Mitchell 2000 The City of Bits Hypothesis 16. Mike Crang 2000 Urban Morphology and the Shaping of the Transmissible City 17. Zac Carey 2002 Generation Txt : The Telephone Hits the Street 18. Stephen Graham 2002 Excavating the Material Geographies of Cybercities 19. Anthony Townsend 2002 Learning From September 11th : ICT Infrastructure Collapses in a Global Cybercity Section 2: Cybercity Dimensions Part 4: Cybercity Mobilities 20. Nick Barley 2000 People 21. Pnina Ohana Plaut 2002 Do Telecommunications Make Transportation Obsolete? 22. Mimi Sheller and John Urry 2002 The City and the CyberCar 23. David Holmes 2002 Cybercommuting on an Information Superhighway: The Case of Melbourne's CityLink 24. Keller Easterling 2002 The New Orgman : Logistics as an Organizing Principle of Contemporary Cities 25. Mark Gottdeiner 2001 Deterritorialisation and the Airport Part 5: Cybercity Economies 26. Saskia Sassen 2000 Agglomeration in the Digital Era? 27. Vincent Mosco 2002 Webs of Myth and Power: Connectivity and the New Computer Technopolis 28. Matthew Zook 2002 Cyberspace and Local Places: The Urban Dominance of Dot-com Geography in the Late 1990s 29. Andrew Gillespie 2000 Teleworking and the City: Myths of Workplace and Ranald Richardson Transcendence and Travel Reduction 30. Ewart Skinner 1998 The Caribbean Data Processors 31. Martin Dodge 2002 Geographies of E-commerce : The Case of Amazon.com 32. Andrew Murphy 2002 The Web, the Grocer, and the City 33. Yuko Aoyama 2002 E-Commerce and Urban Space in Japan : Accessing the Net via Convenience Stores 34. Susan Davis 1999 Space Jam: Media Conglomerates Build the Entertainment City Part 6: Social and Cultural Worlds of Cybercities 35. Robert Luke 2002 Habit@Online: Web Portals as Purchasing Ideology 36. David Morley 2001 At Home With the Media 37. Keith Hampton 2003 Netville : Community On and Offline in a Wired Suburb 38. Nina Wakeford 1999 Gender and Landscapes of Computing in an Internet Café 39. Timo Kopomaa 2002 Speaking Mobile : Intensified Everyday Life, Condensed City 40. Anne Beamish 2001 The City in Cyberspace From Reimaging the City 41. Ken Hillis 1999 Identity, Embodiment, and Place : Virtual Reality as Postmodern Technology Part 7: Cybercity Public Domains and Digital Divides 42. Fred Dewey 1997 Cyburbanism as a Way of Life 43. Rebecca Solnit 2000 San Francisco : Capital of the Twenty-First Century 44. David Lyon 2002 Surveillance in the City 45. Benton Foundation 2000 Defining the Technology Gap 46. Shirin Madon 1998 Bangalore : Internal Disparities of a City Caught in the Information Age 47. Ana María 2002 Public Internet Cabins and the Digital Divide in Fernández-Maldonado, Developing World Megacities : A Case Study of Lima 48. Danny Kruger 1997 Access Denied 49. Stephen Graham 2002 The Software-Sorted City: Rethinking the Digital Divide Section 3: Shaping Cybercities? Part 8: Cybercity Strategy and Politics 50. Stephen Graham and Simon Marvin 1999 Planning Cyber-Cities? Integrating Telecommunications into Urban Planning 51. Tim Bunnell 2002 Cyberjaya and Putrajaya: Malaysia's 'Intelligent' Cities 52. Neil Coe and Henry Wai-chung Yeung 2002 Grounding Global Flows: Constructing an E-Commerce Hub in Singapore 53. Richard Sclove 2002 Cybernetic Wal-Mart : Will Internet Tax Breaks Kill Main Street USA? 54. Thomas Horan 2000 Recombinations for Community Meaning 55. Walter Siembab 2002 Retrofitting Sprawl: A Cyber Strategy for Livable Communities 56. Geert Lovink 2002 The Rise and Fall of the Digital City Metaphor and Community in 1990s Amsterdam 57. Andreas Broeckmann 2000 Public Spheres and Network Interfaces Part 9: Cybercity Futures 58. Rob Warren, Stacy Warren, Sam Nunn and Colin Warren The Future Of The Future In Planning Theory: Appropriating Cyberpunk Visions Of The City 59. Martin Pawley 1998 Terminal 2098 60. Jean Michel Dewailly 1999 Sustainable Tourist Space : From Reality to Virtual Reality? 61. John Adams 2002 A Letter from the Future 62. Philip Agre 2002 Life After Cyberspace 63. Peter Huber and Mark Mills 2002 How Technology Will Defeat Terrorism

There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, though, it cannot be denied that 'informization' has produced vast changes in advanced societies. The Information Society Reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate from some of the key figures in the field. Major topics addressed include:

· post-industrialism
· surveillance
· transformations
· the network society
· democracy
· digital divisions
· virtual relations.

With a comprehensive introduction from Frank Webster, and section introductions contextualising the readings, The Information Society Reader will be an invaluable resource for students and academics studying contemporary society and all things cyber.

Includes selections from Manuel Castells, Daniel Bell, Anthony Giddens, Michel Foucault and Christopher Lasch, amongst others.

Bringing together studies of everyday local practices in workplaces within information society, this book has a special focus on social space and the agency of actors. It includes both theoretical reviews and detailed qualitative research. It also highlights the political challenges of the information society, challenges which are likely to become subjects of international concern.

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The rapid growth of new media technologies is radically changing film production and consumption. New technologies such as DVDs, MP3s and the Internet have freed the audience from traditional ways of relating to what used to be termed "mass media". In the face of such seismic shifts, the theoretical and pedagogical structures of film and television studies are being shaken to their core. New Media responds to these revolutionary developments, bringing together authors including Constance Penley and Henry Jenkins to address topics such as computer games, digital animation techniques, media convergence, and internet audiences.

What is Quality of Life in a society that has embraced information and communication technology (ICT)? What is Wisdom in this kind of society? And what things are helping or hindering us from having both wisdom and a good quality of life in ICT societies? Taking the reader through a quick analysis of the current social and psychological changes in the Information and Communication Society, Bradley challenges us to avoid becoming victims of technology - whether we are professionals, policymakers, parents or citizens. Indeed, she introduces a theoretical model based on four decades' worth of research to help the reader to understand this complex, technological world. In addition to focusing the reader's attention on convergence and acceleration, this model describes the interplay between technology, societal structure, organizational design and human roles, thus leading to what Bradley describes as a "good ICT society". Emphasising the necessity of a co-operative parallel between the automation and humanization of society, this innovative volume will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in the subjects such as Information and Communication Technology and Social Change, Psychology and Sociology, Computer Technology and Media Technology.

The 'new economy' has been criticised greatly of late, and after the speculation and hype that surrounded the internet bubble, this is hardly surprising. This book, first published in French and updated here, however treats the 'new economy' as a discourse - one that is often misleading. In order to understand what happened during the internet bubble and the fuss that surrounded it, a central element - intellectual speculation - needs to be understood. New Economy, New Myth treats this speculation as a form of 'ultra-free-market' thinking. According to this line of thought, the internet and the digital revolution are acting as a sort of Trojan horse in spreading market deregulation across the globe. With so much having been written about the new economy, this book employs a mixture of academic rigour and readable prose and comes as a welcome relief. It will be an intriguing reading to those interested in the internet bubble - and the hyperbole that surrounded it.

The 'new economy' has been criticised greatly of late, and after the speculation and hype that surrounded the internet bubble, this is hardly surprising. This book, first published in French and updated here, however treats the 'new economy' as a discourse - one that is often misleading. In order to understand what happened during the internet bubble and the fuss that surrounded it, a central element - intellectual speculation - needs to be understood. New Economy, New Myth treats this speculation as a form of 'ultra-free-market' thinking. According to this line of thought, the internet and the digital revolution are acting as a sort of Trojan horse in spreading market deregulation across the globe. With so much having been written about the new economy, this book employs a mixture of academic rigour and readable prose and comes as a welcome relief. It will be an intriguing read for those interested in the internet bubble - and the hyperbole that surrounded it.

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies. With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor introduces a particular theorist and discusses the way in which their insights can be reintroduced into debates regarding the social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. Theorists presented in Volume 1 include some well-known and some less well-known figures: Walter Benjamin; Murray Edeleman; Jacques Ellul; Harold Innes; Lewis Mumford; Karl Polanyi; Eric Elmer Scattachneider and Raymond Williams. Each has something fresh and pertinent to say and taken as a whole this volume provides an exciting new resource for contemporary studies.

Cybertypes looks at the impact of the web and its discourses upon our ideas about race, and vice versa. Examining internet advertising, role-playing games, chat rooms, cyberpunk fiction from Neuromancer to The Matrix and web design, Nakamura traces the real-life consequences that follow when we attempt to push issues of race and identity on-line.

Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police activities and intelligence gathering, now it is an unavoidable feature of everyday life.

Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting - a means of verifying identities but also of assessing risks and assigning worth. Questions of how categories are constructed therefore become significant ethical and political questions.

Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting offers an innovative approach to the interaction between societies and their technologies. It looks at a number of examples in depth and will be an appropriate source of reference for a wide variety of courses.

Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies. With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor introduces a particular theorist and discusses the way in which their insights can be reintroduced into debates regarding the social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. Theorists presented in Volume 1 include some well-known and some less well-known figures: Walter Benjamin; Murray Edeleman; Jacques Ellul; Harold Innes; Lewis Mumford; Karl Polanyi; Eric Elmer Scattachneider and Raymond Williams. Each has something fresh and pertinent to say and taken as a whole this volume provides an exciting new resource for contemporary studies.

The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change, about how it would revitalize democracy, empowering ordinary citizens to work together to create a new public sphere. Future Active puts such claims to the test. Graham Meikle takes us behind the digital barricades and into the heart of Internet activist campaigns. In the first in-depth look at this global phenomenon, he talks to key players in the Indymedia movement and introduces us to the creators of gwbush.com, the website that provoked the President to declare that there ought to be limits to freedom. The founder of Belgrade radio station B92 explains how they used the net to thwart Milosevic's censorship, while McLibel trial defendant Dave Morris discusses his role in the McSpotlight website.

Web Theory is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the theories of the internet and the world wide web. Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall examine the key debates which surround internet culture, from issues of globalisation, political economy and regulation, to ideas about communication, identity and aesthetics.
Web Theory explore the shifts in society, culture and the media which have been brought about by the growth of the world wide web. It identifies significant readings, web sites and hypertext archive sources which illustrate the critical discussion about the internet and it mediates these discussions, indicating key positions within each debate and pointing the reader to key texts.
Web Theory includes:
*Chapters showing how specific media have been affected by the internet
*Boxed case studies and examples
*References, an extensive bibliography and a list of web sites
*A glossary of key terms with important words highlighted in the text
*A Web Theory timeline which details important events
*A comprehensive and regularly updated website at www.webtheory.nu with inks and support material

Surveillance happens to all of us, everyday, as we walk beneath street cameras, swipe cards, surf the net. Agencies are using increasingly sophisticated computer systems - especially searchable databases - to keep tabs on us at home, work and play. Once the word surveillance was reserved for police activities and intelligence gathering, now it is an unavoidable feature of everyday life.

Surveillance as Social Sorting proposes that surveillance is not simply a contemporary threat to individual freedom, but that, more insidiously, it is a powerful means of creating and reinforcing long-term social differences. As practiced today, it is actually a form of social sorting - a means of verifying identities but also of assessing risks and assigning worth. Questions of how categories are constructed therefore become significant ethical and political questions.

Bringing together contributions from North America and Europe, Surveillance as Social Sorting offers an innovative approach to the interaction between societies and their technologies. It looks at a number of examples in depth and will be an appropriate source of reference for a wide variety of courses.

Imagining, forecasting and predicting the future is an inextricable and increasingly important part of the present. States, organizations and individuals almost continuously have to make decisions about future actions, financial investments or technological innovation, without much knowledge of what will exactly happen in the future. Science and technology play a crucial role in this collective attempt to make sense of the future. Technological developments such as nanotechnology, robotics or solar energy largely shape how we dream and think about the future, while economic forecasts, gene tests or climate change projections help us to make images of what may possibly occur in the future. This book provides one of the first interdisciplinary assessments of how scientific and technological imaginations matter in the formation of human, ecological and societal futures. Rooted in different disciplines such as sociology, philosophy, and science and technology studies, it explores how various actors such as scientists, companies or states imagine the future to be and act upon that imagination. Bringing together case studies from different regions around the globe, including the electrification of German car infrastructure, or genetically modified crops in India, Imagined Futures in Science, Technology and Society shows how science and technology create novel forms of imagination, thereby opening horizons toward alternative futures. By developing central aspects of the current debate on how scientific imagination and future-making interact, this timely volume provides a fresh look at the complex interrelationships between science, technology and society. This book will be of interest to postgraduate students interested in Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Political Sciences, Future Studies and Literary Sciences.

1 Einfuhrung.- 1.1 Ausgangslage.- 1.2 Zielsetzung.- 1.3 Aufbau der Arbeit.- 2 Mobilitat.- 2.1 Vorbemerkungen zum Verstandnis von Mobilitat.- 2.2 Mikro- oder Individualebene.- 2.3 Systemansatze.- 2.4 Telekommunikationsgestutzte Mobilitat.- 3 Delphi.- 3.1 Mobilitat der Zukunft: Welchen Weg weist das Orakel?.- 3.2 Zum Stellenwert IuK-basierter Innovationen fur die Mobilitat der Zukunft.- 3.3 Typisierung unterschiedlicher Mobilitatsfelder.- 3.4 Mobilitatseffekte IuK-basierter Anwendungen.- 3.5 Realisierungszeitraume mobilitasbezogenener Innovationen.- 3.6 Resumee fur den weiteren Gang der Untersuchung.- 4 Online-Reisen.- 4.1 Nutzermerkmale.- 4.1.1 Demographie.- 4.1.1.1 Geschlecht.- 4.1.1.2 Alter.- 4.1.1.3 Haushalte mit Kindern unter 14 Jahren.- 4.1.1.4 Bildung.- 4.1.1.5 Berufstatigkeit.- 4.1.1.6 Tatigkeit nichtberufstatiger Personen.- 4.1.1.7 Berufsstellung berufstatiger Personen.- 4.1.1.8 Nettohaushaltseinkommen.- 4.1.1.9 Zwischenresumee.- 4.1.2 Internetnutzungsmerkmale.- 4.1.2.1 Nutzung eines privaten Internetanschlusses.- 4.1.2.2 Erfahrung mit dem Internet (Nutzungszeitraum).- 4.1.2.3 Internetnutzung in Tagen pro Woche (beruflich und privat).- 4.1.2.4 Private Internetnutzung unter der Woche (Mo-Fr) und am Wochenende (Sa-So).- 4.1.2.5 Zwischenresumee.- 4.1.3 Reisemerkmale.- 4.1.3.1 Anzahl der Reisen in den letzten 3 Jahren mit Dauer von mindestens 13 Tagen.- 4.1.3.2 Anzahl der privaten Reisen in den letzten 12 Monaten.- 4.1.3.3 Dauer der langsten privaten Reise in den letzen 12 Monaten (Tage).- 4.1.3.4 Ziele der langsten Reise innerhalb der letzten 12 Monate.- 4.1.3.5 Benutzte Verkehrsmittel bei der langsten privaten Reise innerhalb der letzten 12 Monate.- 4.1.4 Bindung an Stammreiseburo.- 4.1.4.1 Anzahl der Besuche eines Reiseburos.- 4.1.4.2 Reisebuchungen.- 4.1.4.3 Zwischenresumee.- 4.2 Nutzungsmotivation.- 4.2.1 Anlasse der Nutzung.- 4.2.2 Wahrnehmung moeglicher Vorteile von Online-Reiseangeboten.- 4.2.3 Wahrnehmung moeglicher Nachteile von Online-Reiseangeboten.- 4.2.4 Zwischenresumee.- 4.3 Hinweise auf zukunftige Nutzung.- 4.3.1 Nutzung von Online-Reiseangeboten unter Idealbedingungen.- 4.3.1.1 Nutzungspotenziale und gegenwartiger Auslastungsgrad.- 4.3.1.2 Veranderung der Nutzungshaufigkeit.- 4.3.2 Zwischenresumee.- 4.4 Mobilitatseffekte.- 4.4.1 Motivationssteigerung.- 4.4.2 Gunstige Reisen gefunden/Geld gespart.- 4.4.3 Anregung zur AEnderung des Reisemittels.- 4.4.4 Reduzierung der Besuche im Reiseburo.- 4.4.5 AEnderung des ursprunglichen Reiseziels.- 4.4.6 Induzierung von Reiseverkehr (spontane Kurzreisen).- 4.4.7 Induzierung von Reiseverkehr (mehr Reisen unternommen).- 4.4.8 Haufiger unternommene Reisetypen bei idealem Angebot.- 4.4.9 Zwischenresumee.- 5 Online-Banking.- 5.1 Nutzermerkmale.- 5.1.1 Demographie.- 5.1.1.1 Geschlecht.- 5.1.1.2 Alter.- 5.1.1.3 Haushalte mit Kindern unter 14 Jahren.- 5.1.1.4 Bildung.- 5.1.1.5 Berufstatigkeit.- 5.1.1.6 Tatigkeit nicht-berufstatiger Personen.- 5.1.1.7 Berufsstellung berufstatiger Personen.- 5.1.1.8 Nettohaushaltseinkommen.- 5.1.1.9 Zwischenresumee.- 5.1.2 Internetnutzungsmerkmale.- 5.1.2.1 Nutzung eines privaten Internetanschlusses.- 5.1.2.1 Erfahrung mit dem Internet (Nutzungszeitraum).- 5.1.2.2 Internetnutzung pro Woche (beruflichund privat).- 5.1.2.3 Private Internetnutzung unter der Woche (Mo-Fr) und am Wochenende (Sa-So).- 5.1.2.4 Hinweise auf Nutzungsmuster von Online-Bankkunden.- 5.1.2.5 Zwischenresumee.- 5.2 Nutzungsmotivation.- 5.2.1 Bewertung der Bankservices.- 5.2.2 Bedeutung der Vorteile von Online-Banking fur die Befragten.- 5.2.2.1 Raumliche Nahe zur Bank.- 5.2.3 Motivationshemmende Faktoren: Einschatzung der Probleme von Online-Banking.- 5.2.4 Nutzungsbarrieren.- 5.2.5 Zwischenresumee.- 5.3 Hinweise auf zukunftige Nutzung.- 5.3.1 Online-Banking unter "ldealbedingungen".- 5.3.1.1 Nutzungspotenziale und gegenwartiger Auslastungsgrad.- 5.3.1.2 Veranderung der Nutzungshaufigkeit.- 5.3.1.3 Internet-Nutzung in Jah

This lively and engaging text introduces students to the major debates and data on the information society and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of:

* theorists of the information society, particularly Manuel Castells and Daniel Bell
* social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural
* qualitative and quantitative research methods and criteria for social science evaluation.

Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment and the reconfiguration of time and space in everyday life. In exploring these, the reader is introduced through case-studies, activities, and questions for discussion, to the practicalities of doing social research and the nature of social science argument and understanding.