Reconceptualizing Development in the Global Information Age
(Sprache: Englisch)
The book explores the links between information, development, wellbeing and dignity, gathering together a distinguished group of scholars to assess these inter-related concepts in several different areas of the world-Silicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South...
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The book explores the links between information, development, wellbeing and dignity, gathering together a distinguished group of scholars to assess these inter-related concepts in several different areas of the world-Silicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South Africa, Finland, the European Union and China.
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The conditions in which 'development'-the process by which people, individually and collectively, enhance their capacities to improve their lives according to their values and interests-operates have significantly changed in the global information age, a period characterized by the technological revolution in information and communication, the rise of the networking form of social organization, and the global interdependence of economies and societies. This volumeaims to redefine the means and goals of development in this new context: first, by characterizing the specific mode of development, informational development, that the authors consider to be the driver of the creation of material wealth in the twenty-first century; secondly, by reconceptualizing
human development as the fulfilment of human wellbeing in the multidimensionality of the human experience, ultimately affirming dignity as the supreme value of development; thirdly, by examining the relationship between informational development and human development.
After first setting out its analytical framework, the book brings together a diverse set of empirically-rich case studies to illustrate this investigation from across the globe-Silicon Valley, Costa Rica, Chile, South Africa, Finland, the European Union, and China-and concludes by attempting to reconceptualize development. It raises important questions and provides observations, including examining the concept of 'dignity as development', to contribute to a policy debate that should provide
specific answers linked to the conditions of each society, and be enacted by democratic institutions in a concerted global effort to save humankind while there is still time.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Reconceptualizing Development in the Global Information Age “
Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen: Introduction; PART I: ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; 1 Manuel Castells and Pekka Himanen: Models of Development in the Global Information Age: Constructing an Analytical Framework; PART II: CASE STUDIES; 2 AnnaLee Saxenian: The Silicon Valley Model: Economic Dynamism, Social Exclusion; 3 Pekka Himanen: Reconstructing the Finnish Model 2.0: Building a Sustainable Development Model?; 4 Manuel Castells, Isidora Chacon, Pekka Himanen: Toward a Welfare State 2.0: Crisis and Renewal of the European Welfare State?; 5 You-tien Hsing: Development as Culture: Human Development and Information Development in China; 6 Nico Cloete and Alison Gillwald: South Africa Informational Development and Human Development: Rights vs. Capabilities; 7 Fernando Calderon and Manuel Castells: Development, Democracy, and Social Change in Chile; 8 Isidora Chacon: Pacifism, Human Development, and Informational Development: The Costa Rican Model; PART III: RECONCEPTUALIZING DEVELOPMENT; 9 Fernando Calderon: Rethinking Human Development; 10 Pekka Himanen: Dignity as Development: The Cultural Link Between Informational and Human Development
Autoren-Porträt von Manuel Castells, Pekka Himanen
Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also Professor Emeritus of Sociology and of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley, as well as Director of Research in the Department of Sociology, and Fellow of St. John's College, University of Cambridge. He has been Professor and Director of the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. He has published 26 books, including the trilogy The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture (Blackwell 1996-2003) and Communication Power (Oxford University Press 2009). He received the 2011 Erasmus Medal from Academia Europaea, the 2012 Holberg Memorial Prize from the Parliament of Norway, and the 2013 Balzan Prize from the Balzan Foundation.; Pekka Himanen is Professor at Aalto University in Helsinki and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley. His books include
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Manuel Castells , Pekka Himanen
- 2014, 384 Seiten, Masse: 15,6 x 24,1 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Herausgegeben von Castells, Manuel; Himanen, Pekka
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198716087
- ISBN-13: 9780198716082
Sprache:
Englisch
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