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Transforming Communication Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations
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Sohail Inayatullah, Susan Leggett
Book Code: C6944
ISBN: 0-275-96944-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96944-8
208 pages, charts, figures
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2001
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)
Availability: Out of stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the persistent and growing gap between rich and poor? The contributors to this volume consider these central questions, among others, from a wide variety of perspectives. The contributors argue that to create sustainable futures, ways must be found to make communication inclusive, participatory, and mindful of future generations. It must also emerge authentically from humanity's diverse cultures, be more concerned with the quality of information shared than with the sheer volume of email in the world, and be transformed from its technocratic bias in order to move toward a truly global "conversation of civilization." This book will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields concerned with issues of communications, culture, and globalization.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Transforming Communication for Future Generations by Sohail Inayatullah
  • Future Generations
  • Future Generations Through Global Conversation--In Quest of Collective Wellbeing through Conversation in the Present Moment by Anthony Judge
  • Seizing the Moment for Future Generations by Richard Neville
  • Conversations with the Ghosts of the Future--Some Theoretical Problems and Practical Opporunities by Darren Schmidt
  • The Ethics of Future Generations by Jérôme Bindé
  • Communication Futures
  • The Net and Our Social Futures by Tony Stevenson
  • From the Information Era to a Gaia of Civilizations by Sohail Inayatullah
  • The Telephone--Africa's Future in the Age of Technology by Levi Obijiofor
  • The Techno-brahmins and the Futures of Communication by Rakesh Kapoor
  • Magani Whirlpools: An Indigenous Metaphor and Process to Reconcile the Past for the Future by Paul Wildman and Bilyana Blomely
  • Technology, Women, and Power
  • Creating Communication Spaces for Not Yet So Virtual People by Ivana Milojevic
  • Rural Women's Futures and Cooperative Solutions by Vuokko Jarva
  • Voices from Elsewhere: Empowering Electronic Conversations among Women by Margaret Grace and June Lennie
  • Landless Rural Women Creating Sustainable Futures by Frances Parker and Rahmi Sofiarini
  • Sustainability and Future Generations
  • The Legacy of Technology by Alan Fricker
  • Global Food Policy: Like Winning a Game of Poker on the Titanic? by Mary Mahoney
  • Permaculture: Hope and Empowerment for a Sustainable Future by Caroline Smith
  • Why Consider Future Generations?--And How to Consider Them More Fully by Geoff Holland
  • Bibliography
  • Index
LC Card Number: 2001036702
LCC Class: HC79
Dewey Class: 384
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