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The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes

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RESEARCH that is sensitive to the human and social dimensions of communication and computers aims to open the media and new technology to full public access and control. In order to do this, we need to understand what access and control mean and how our particular ways of relating to technology might advance or retard democracy.

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  1. Institut d’Informatique, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium

    Jacques Berleur

  2. Faculty of Library and Information Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Andrew Clement

  3. British Computer Society, London, UK

    Richard Sizer

  4. London Business School, London, UK

    Diane Whitehouse

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Mosco, V. (1990). Computers and Democracy. In: Berleur, J., Clement, A., Sizer, R., Whitehouse, D. (eds) The Information Society: Evolving Landscapes. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4328-9_13

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