.... Community development Information society Social inclusion This book is about measuring innovative approaches adopted by CTCs, or Community Technology Organisations, to bridge the needs of the information poor to create a knowledge dividend. Titled Digital Inclusion: Measuring the Impact...

... Information society I was keen to read this book as I have recently started work on a project to explore how different types of social software can be used to enhance distance learners' use of libraries. Libraries and Social Software in Education (LASSIE) has also meant that for the past five months I...

...Johnson Paul John Feather in his latest edition of The Information Society provides an excellent introduction to the key dimensions of transition to a global information society. The 4th edition, unlike the third provokes the reader to challenge assumptions rather than prescribes...

.... I will, however, deal with the significance of each in turn before showing what their special relationship is. The first edition of The Information Society appeared in 1994 with a slightly revised edition appearing in 1998 and this third version two years after that. Thus three editions...

...Robin Yeates Having shown that the information society affects and needs to involve everyone, the book focuses on how it affects information professionals in particular. Cornish describes how freedom of expression, freedom of access to information and freedom to protect what we create raise...

...Rheinallt Llwyd Ever since the first edition of The Information Society appeared in 1994 it has proved to be a popular and useful general introductory text, not just to the “information society” phenomenon of the latter part of the twentieth century, but also to the significance...