Transforming Communication
Subtitle: Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations (Praeger Studies on the 21st Century)
Contributors: Sohail Inayatullah (Editor); Susan Leggett (Editor)
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: December 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780275969448
Subjects: Communication Studies; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; Communication; Future Studies; Telecommunications; Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication; Information technology; Social aspects; Sustainable development; Telecommunication
First sentence: oppressive of men and women, and as a foreclosing of our futures. It is thus not an accident, writes Michael Tracey, that: (just) as the planet is being constructed within the powerful, pervasive all consuming logic of the market, there is a second order language, a fairy tale ... that suggests in Utopian terms new possibilities, in particular those presented by the new alchemies of 'the Net'.