Policy globalization and the “information society”: a view from Canada

Social Structure of Regional Entrepreneurship: The Impacts of Collective Action of Incumbents on De Novo Entrants

“…Starting from the mid-1990s, the telecommunication equipment industry saw a need for collaboration, as the pace of technological change was enormously accelerated by the introduction of the Internet. Traditional telecommunication equipment manufacturers, whose key businesses were to serve wired or wireless telephone networks, suddenly had to address computer networks in the emerging “information society” (Abramson & Raboy, 1999). At the same time, the global telecommunication equipment market opened up due to deregulation, and a large number of new players entered the industry to explore the previously heavily regulated market (Amesse et al., 2004).…”

Imagining the Canadian Internet: A Case of Discursive Nationalization of Technology

“…In the 1990s, the Internet was similarly conceptualized by policy and telecommunications elites as a profit‐generating distribution channel (e.g. Abramson and Raboy ). This technology was discursively linked to the nation's economic competitiveness, although lip service was also paid to its impact on cultural aspects.…”

Classifying the Internet: Everyday Negotiations of Technology and Social Order

“…Furthermore, in 1994, the government made the "information highway"-the Canadian policy metaphor for the Internet and the information society-a policy priority, setting in motion a government/industry partnership that has overseen the development of the internet delivery infrastructure and has controlled Internet access across the country (see for example, Abramson & Raboy, 1999;Barney, 2004Barney, , 2005Young, 2003). The usage figures and the ongoing policy/industry interest in ICTs paint the picture of a society in which citizens (albeit certainly not all of them) both embrace the Internet and are enticed to do so through various public discourses (e.g., policy, media pundits, technology experts, academics, etc.).…”