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Transforming Communication Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations
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Sohail Inayatullah, Susan Leggett
ISBN: 0-275-96944-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96944-8
208 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2001
List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £76.95)
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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
About the Author: SOHAIL INAYATULLAH is Professor and David Sutton Fellow at the International Management Centres of Oxford Brookes University.

SUSAN LEGGETT is a free lance writer currently working for the Communication Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.
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