Gill Information Society

New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4471-3249-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 390 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Human-centred Systems

Human-centredness: A Challenge to Post-industrial Europe? The key power in industrial society has been linked to the possession of capital and factory. In the "information society" it could be rather different. If one accepts that that the key power in the information society will be linked not so much to the ownership of information but to human creativity nourished by that information, the productive force of today and tomorrow, could be more and more the human brain. Making use of one's intelligence is always accompanied by positive emotion, which in turn further activates the intelligence. But, unfortunately, under present conditions workers of all levels live in fear, anxiety and stress rather than desire and motivation. The question of "basic human ecology" (quality of life) is, therefore, a major strategic factor. It is precisely the opposite to the mechanisms of exclusion that currently dominate our society: exclusion of young people through joblessness - but also exclusion through technology, as with the helplessness of older people or the poorly educated confronted with ticket dispensing machines or other automats. This is not idle theorizing, it corresponds to concrete facts. It is, for example, how some observers interpret the crisis at IBM. Because its programs were less 'human-friendly', it was shaken to its foundations by Apple and Microsof- though it seems since to have learnt its lesson.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gill, Karamjit S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I Culture and Technology.- 1. Knowledge and the Post-Industrial Society.- 2. Media and the Cultural Condition: Language and Education.- 3. Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards the Furtherance of a Global Communication System.- 4. The Keyboard Blues: Modern Technology and the Rights and Risks of People at Work.- 5. Ethics is Fragile, Goodness is Not.- 6. Organisational Spaces and Intelligent Machines: A Metaphorical Approach to Ethics.- 7. Information System Design: Human Centred Approaches.- II Information Society: Working and Learning Dimensions.- 8. Technological Change, Social Innovation and Employment.- 9. Empowerment and Enslavement: Business Process Reengineering and the Transformation of Work.- 10. The Role of Creativity in Post-Industrial Society: Exploring the Implications of Non-Conventional Technologies for Work and Management Organisation.- 11. The Global Information Society and Rural Economies.- 12. Information Communication Technology and Society: A Community-Based Approach.- 13. Technology Transfer and Development.- 14. Information, Knowledge and Empowerment: The Role of Information in Rural Development.- 15. Participative Citizenry in the Information Age: The Role of Science and Technology Towards Democratic Education in a Multicultural Society.- III Information Society: Postmodernism Debate.- 16. New Media and Cultural Representation.- 17. Consensus and Authenticity in Representation: Simulation as Participative Theatre.- 18. Cognitive Technology.- 19. Electronic Mail, IT Productivity and Workplace Culture.- 20. Deadly Technology in the Post-Industrial Society: A Case Study of Firearms and Firearms Control.- 21. Resistance Postmodernism: Emancipatory Politics for a New Era or Academic Chic for a Defeatist Intelligentsia?.- 22. Postmodernism, Dance and Post-Industrial Society.- 23. Creativity Constellation for Innovation and Cooperation.