Transforming Communication

Technology, Sustainability, and Future Generations

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

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Thus far, the communications revolution has been largely limited to the merely technological feat of converging telecommunications with personal computing. But does it hold a truly higher promise--to transform communication as a human act of sharing meaning about values, attitudes, and experiences? Or will it simply allow capitalism to pursue ever-greater economic efficiencies among the wealthy nations of the world, while ignoring the persistent and growing gap between rich and poor? The contributors to this volume consider these central questions, among others, from a wide variety of perspectives.The contributors argue that to create sustainable futures, ways must be found to make communication inclusive, participatory, and mindful of future generations. It must also emerge authentically from humanity's diverse cultures, be more concerned with the quality of information shared than with the sheer volume of email in the world, and be transformed from its technocratic bias in order to move toward a truly global conversation of civilization. This book will be of interest to scholars in a variety of fields concerned with issues of communications, culture, and globalization.

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Utgivningsdatum2001-12-30
Mått157 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780275969448

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Introduction: Transforming Communication for Future Generations by Sohail Inayatullah Future Generations Future Generations Through Global Conversation--In Quest of Collective Wellbeing through Conversation in the Present Moment by Anthony Judge Seizing the Moment for Future Generations by Richard Neville Conversations with the Ghosts of the Future--Some Theoretical Problems and Practical Opporunities by Darren Schmidt The Ethics of Future Generations by Jerome Binde Communication Futures The Net and Our Social Futures by Tony Stevenson From the Information Era to a Gaia of Civilizations by Sohail Inayatullah The Telephone--Africa's Future in the Age of Technology by Levi Obijiofor The Techno-brahmins and the Futures of Communication by Rakesh Kapoor Magani Whirlpools: An Indigenous Metaphor and Process to Reconcile the Past for the Future by Paul Wildman and Bilyana Blomely Technology, Women, and Power Creating Communication Spaces for Not Yet So Virtual People by Ivana Milojevic Rural Women's Futures and Cooperative Solutions by Vuokko Jarva Voices from Elsewhere: Empowering Electronic Conversations among Women by Margaret Grace and June Lennie Landless Rural Women Creating Sustainable Futures by Frances Parker and Rahmi Sofiarini Sustainability and Future Generations The Legacy of Technology by Alan Fricker Global Food Policy: Like Winning a Game of Poker on the Titanic? by Mary Mahoney Permaculture: Hope and Empowerment for a Sustainable Future by Caroline Smith Why Consider Future Generations?--And How to Consider Them More Fully by Geoff Holland Bibliography Index

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