Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe : From Information to Communication (Hardcover)

Contents: Introduction, Roger Silverstone. Inclusion and Exclusion: Inclusion and exclusion in the information society, Kees Brants and Valerie Frissen; Mapping diasporic media cultures: a transnational cultural approach to exclusion, Myria Georgiou; ICT-usage among transnational social movements in the networked society: to organise, to mobilise and to debate, Bart Cammaerts; ICT and the everyday life experiences of less-abled people, Dorothee Durieux. Consumption and the Quality of Life: Consumption and quality of life in a digital world, Yves Punie, Marc Bogdanowicz, Anne-Jorunn Berg, Caroline Pauwels and Jean-Claude Burgelman; Internet consumption in Ireland: towards a ’connected’ domestic life, Katie Ward; The everyday of extreme flexibility: the case of migrant researchers’ use of new information and communication technologies, Thomas Berker; The discourse of the perfect future: young people and new technologies, Maren Hartmann; The future of ambient intelligence in Europe: the need for more everyday life, Yves Punie. Methodology and Policy: The information society in Europe: methods and methodologies, FranA§ois Pichault, Dorothee Durieux and Roger Silverstone; ICTs in everyday life: public policy implications for ’Europe’s way to the information society’, Paschal Preston; Towards the ’communication society’, Roger Silverstone and Knut H. SA¸rensen; Glossary, prepared by Anita Howarth, Index.