Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume
focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects
for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the
fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the
current technological revolution in information and communication.
The volume argues that information technologies have historically
played a dual and paradoxical role in political formations.
Generally, the Big Media (the national press, broadcasting and
mainframe computers) have served the centralizing forces, while the
Small Media (the alternative press, small scale audio-video
production and transmission facilities and increasingly personal
computing networking) have provided the channel for community
resistance and mobilization. The volume argues that the new
information technologies, like the old, should be viewed neither as
technologies of freedom nor of tyranny but primarily as
technologies of power that lock into existing or emerging
techno-structures of power.
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