
Technocities
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`I would be even more general than the book jacket and suggest that any reader interested in placing their own use of technology in a wider context will find something of interest in this multi-faceted book' - Outline 9All prices
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Jim's main academic interests are in social theory, cultural studies and policy. He has published in many book collections and journals, including Cultural Studies, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Keywords, New Left Review, New Statesman, Social Semiotics, Sociological Review and Sociology. His books include Cultural Populism (1992), Culture and the Public Sphere (1996), Cultural Methodologies (1997), Modernity and Postmodern Culture (1999, 2006), Rethinking Cultural Policy (2004), Cool Capitalism (2009), Cultural Analysis (2010), Raymond Williams on Culture and Society (2014), A Short Counter-Revolution - Raymond Williams's Towards 2000 Revisited (2015) and Neoliberal Culture (2016). He is currently working on a book about Raymond Williams.
Content
PART ONE: DEBATES
Towards Urban Cyberspace Planning - Stephen Graham
Grounding the Global through Urban Telematics Policy and Planning
Foreclosing on the City? The Bad Idea of Virtual Urbanism - Kevin Robins
Information and Communications Technologies - Frank Webster
Luddism Revisited
PART TWO: TEXTURES
Fishing with False Teeth - Simone Bergman and Liesbet van Zoonen
Women, Gender and the Internet
The Ideal City and the Virtual Hive - Julian Stallabrass
Modernism and Emergent Order in Computer Culture
PART THREE: TERRITORIES
Xs 4 All? `Information Society' Policy and Practice in the European Union - John Downey
Beyond Infrastructure - Leen d'Haenens
Europe, The USA and Canada on the Information Highway
Technocities and Development - Simon Bell
Images of Inferno and Utopia
PART FOUR: PERSPECTIVES
Designs on the City - John Pickering
Urban Experience in the Age of Electronic Reproduction
New Technologies - Douglas Kellner
Technocities and the Prospects for Democratization
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