| NOTAS: | "How does politics influence communication technology? What forces shape technological enterprise? How do politics, society, and technology intersect? To answer these questions, the author Gerald Sussman looks beyond the techno-functional aspects of product and process and focuses instead on the human agents and institutions involved in the making of information technologies. Sussman starts with a theoretical introduction and then reviews the social history of communication technology. (...) The author concludes by examining the global dimension of the information society, pointing out effects on developing countries and alternatives to the hegemonic tendencies of the U.S. and world economies." |
