"Over the last decade, political economy has grown rapidly as a specialist area of research and teaching within communications and media studies and is now established as a core element in university programmes around the world. The Handbook of Political Economy of Communications offers students...

Our most basic relationship with the world is one of technological mediation. Nowadays our available tools are digital, and increasingly what counts in economic, social, and cultural life is what can be digitally stored, distributed, replayed, augmented, and switched. Yet the digital remains...

"This book brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society including law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and more"--

Statistische Publikation mit aktuellem Zahlenmaterial (1995 bis 2000/2001) über die zahlreichen Facetten der sich seit Ende der 90er-Jahre entwickelnden Informationsgesellschaft in Deutschland. Im Mittelpunkt steht einerseits die Informationswirtschaft, d. h. die Produktion, Nutzung und...