How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use
has become the most effective form of power: theoretical
foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the
U.S., an innovator informational state. As the informational state
replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information
creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective
form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the
theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state."
She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate,
explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to
exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as
intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which
policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known
issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally
equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law,
research funding, census methods, and network interconnection.
Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and
trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the
theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for
understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20
information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She
then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the
identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state
itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that
make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system,
she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of
several information policy issues in each category affected. Change
of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling
discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract
analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as
law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how
information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that
come with the transformation to the informational state.
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