A Normative Theory of the Information Society

Duff, Alistair S.

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“…We need to ensure that the correct value settings are in place so that the information society has a reasonable chance of running smoothly, of not crashing (Duff, 2008).…”

Section: Science and Technology Policymentioning

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Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy

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Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

2012

Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance

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This chapter describes an eParticipation model, designed to be especially appropriate to young people and complex topics: distributed discussion. It draws on the experiences of the HUWY project, which piloted a distributed discussion model, in four countries, to assess how this supported young people's engagement. The pilot revealed that young people valued structured and well supported discussions, particularly well-facilitated offline discussions. Integrating online and offline, national and international elements are the advantages and challenges of this model. This chapter aims to give an overview of the theoretical basis, process and impacts of the model and to provide recommendations for future development and use.

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“…We need to ensure that the correct value settings are in place so that the information society has a reasonable chance of running smoothly, of not crashing (Duff, 2008).…”

Section: Science and Technology Policymentioning

confidence: 99%

Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy

Taylor‐Smith

Kimpeler

Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

2012

Empowering Open and Collaborative Governance

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“…In short, the internet and the mobile phone have become "prime site[s] of the normative crisis" (Duff 2008) facing Zimbabwean print journalism in the information society. The rest of the article focuses on the challenges and normative dilemmas emerging with the appropriation of the internet and mobile phone in the newsrooms studied.…”

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“…Other concerns relate to the growing controversy surrounding the invasion of personal privacy in the digital era as well as copyright violations. Some of these concerns relate to the contemporary crisis facing journalism globally as widely articulated in the developed nations where scholars have long accepted the information society era as central to redefining and rethinking traditional journalism (Pavlik 2000;Deuze 2003;Duff 2008).…”

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“…The present study confronts these assumptions by highlighting the normative 2 dilemmas and challenges emerging with the permeation of new digital technologies into Zimbabwean newsrooms. It follows Duff's (2008) advice that in the so-called "information society" era-characterised by the rapid proliferation of new digital technologies and their impact on society-"attention should increasingly be focused upon the normative dimensions of [the developments]". 3 As Fenton aptly expresses it, in the world of increasing reliance on information accessed through new digital technologies: "news matters (maybe more than it ever has) and interrogating the nature of news Digital Journalism, Vol.…”

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Normative Dilemmas and Issues for Zimbabwean Print Journalism in the “Information Society” Era

Mabweazara

2013

Digital Journalism

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While new digital technologies offer mainstream journalism in Africa (and elsewhere) alternative opportunities to engage and deliver content to their audiences, few studies have explored their disruptive implications to the practice of the profession. This study thus confronts the normative dilemmas and challenges facing Zimbabwean print journalism in the era of the rapid proliferation and appropriation of new digital technologies. It specifically explores how the appropriation of the internet and the mobile phone by Zimbabwean print journalists has contributed to a transformation of the profession at a number of levels, including news sourcing routines, and the structuring of the working day. While broadly affirming findings from previous studies, the paper submits that the information society era has spawned a number of localised professional dilemmas that border around copyright infringements as well as concerns relating to the invasion of journalists' personal space and privacy. It contends that despite the wide-ranging resources and technological possibilities emerging with new digital technologies in Zimbabwe, their appropriation in journalism (and in everyday life) presents several unsettling challenges and modifications to the profession.

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“…Nesta linha existem as teses bourdieusianas (BOURDIEU, 1983) que argumentam acerca da naturalização simbólico-material da economia nas relações sociais (estruturalismo genético), as proposições de Richard Sennett a respeito do "novo capitalismo social" (2006) e do efeito do uso privado da razão para o declínio do homem público (1988), as descrições de Manuel Castells (1999;2000;2001) de uma sociedade em rede como sociedade informacional, cujos desdobramentos reais após os prognósticos futuristas dos anos 1970 demarcam um aumento das desigualdades e das fragilidades humanas em face de um projeto distópico de sociedade; Alistair Duff (2008) dirá formas de manifestação cultural de sujeitos com capacidade de se exprimirem verbalmente e de agirem. [...] 2) O paradigma da produção determina o conceito da práxis num sentido de tal modo naturalista que se levanta a questão de saber se poderão obter-se conteúdos normativos a partir do processo osmótico entre a sociedade e a natureza.…”

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Menezes

2016

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Trata-se de um encontro dialogal da virada pragmático-linguística filosofia com a informação e a teoria crítica da sociedade. O escopo de tal encontro é a busca pelas possibilidades férteis que a teoria crítica da sociedade pós-virada linguística oferece para os estudos sociais da informação, em especial, o método da reconstrução racional, cujo propósito reconstrutivo traz consigo dois conceitos fundamentais que se assemelham e coexistem com as ações prático-cognitivas da informação: sentido e validade. Versa acerca de um encontro público entre as pretensões racionais do uso público da linguagem e seu eco pelas veredas plurais dos estudos informacionais. Ao final das glosas, ficam vestígios e indícios de uma tarefa humanitária e emancipatória porvir, em seu detalhe informacional. INFORMATION BETWEEN MEANING AND VALIDITY: GLOSSES RECONSTRUCTIVEAbstractIt is a dialogical meeting of the pragmatic-linguistic turn philosophy with information and critical theory of society. The scope of this meeting is the search for fertile possibilities that the critical theory of society linguistic post-oriented provides for the social studies of information, in particular the method of rational reconstruction, the purpose of reconstructive brings with it two key concepts that are similar and coexist with the practical-cognitive actions of information: meaning and validity. Versa about a public meeting between the rational claims of the public use of language and its echo the plural paths of informational studies. At the end of glosses, are traces and evidence of a humanitarian task and future emancipatory in its informational detail.

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A Normative Theory of the Information Society

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Cited by 30 publications

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Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy

Distributed Discussion: An Integrated eParticipation Model for Engaging Young People in Technology Policy

Normative Dilemmas and Issues for Zimbabwean Print Journalism in the “Information Society” Era

A Informação Entre Sentido E Validade: Glosas Reconstrutivas

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