Professor Robin Mansell holds the Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet within the Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications (Media@lse), London School of Economics and Political Science.W. Edward Steinmueller is Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he directs the Information, Networks & Knowledge Research Centre.

• 1. Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society ; 2. Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities ; 3. Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society ; 4. Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications ; 5. Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions ; 6. Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization ; 7. Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production ; 8. Building Trust for Virtual Communities ; 9. Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments ; 10. Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future

This book represents a unique combination of sound scholarship and relevant policy analysis. Researched and written by two leading academics, it informs and stimulates thinking on key issues of economic growth and social equity in the age of the Internet, mobile phones, and electronic services. It covers a broad range of technological, economic, and social issues with a focus on how society actually uses new information technologies. It is essential reading for analysts and policy makers, as well as for anyone wanting to understand the transformation of our technological way of life, and making use of this knowledge for everyday life.

Professor Robin Mansell holds the Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet within the Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications (Media@lse), London School of Economics and Political Science.W. Edward Steinmueller is Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he directs the Information, Networks & Knowledge Research Centre.

• 1. Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society ; 2. Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities ; 3. Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society ; 4. Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications ; 5. Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions ; 6. Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization ; 7. Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production ; 8. Building Trust for Virtual Communities ; 9. Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments ; 10. Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future

This book represents a unique combination of sound scholarship and relevant policy analysis. Researched and written by two leading academics, it informs and stimulates thinking on key issues of economic growth and social equity in the age of the Internet, mobile phones, and electronic services. It covers a broad range of technological, economic, and social issues with a focus on how society actually uses new information technologies. It is essential reading for analysts and policy makers, as well as for anyone wanting to understand the transformation of our technological way of life, and making use of this knowledge for everyday life.

Professor Robin Mansell holds the Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet within the Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications (Media@lse), London School of Economics and Political Science.W. Edward Steinmueller is Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he directs the Information, Networks & Knowledge Research Centre.

• 1. Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society ; 2. Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities ; 3. Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society ; 4. Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications ; 5. Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions ; 6. Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization ; 7. Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production ; 8. Building Trust for Virtual Communities ; 9. Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments ; 10. Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future

This book represents a unique combination of sound scholarship and relevant policy analysis. Researched and written by two leading academics, it informs and stimulates thinking on key issues of economic growth and social equity in the age of the Internet, mobile phones, and electronic services. It covers a broad range of technological, economic, and social issues with a focus on how society actually uses new information technologies. It is essential reading for analysts and policy makers, as well as for anyone wanting to understand the transformation of our technological way of life, and making use of this knowledge for everyday life.