Readership: Academics and students in the areas of business, communication/media studies, information systems, and science and technology policy; business strategists; policy makers; managers; professional and lay readers with an interest in the Information Society
Prof. Robin Mansell, Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet within the Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Prof. W. Edward Steinmueller, Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex
"Offers a comprehensive assessment of the European Information Society programme ... provides an authoritative antidote to visions driven by technological determinism and technological utopianism ... of considerable interest to any serious analyst of the topic." - Journal of Documentation
1: Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society 2: Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities 3: Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society 4: Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications 5: Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions 6: Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization 7: Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production 8: Building Trust for Virtual Communities 9: Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments 10: Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future
