Change of State: Information, Policy, and PowerMIT Press, 2009 M08 28 - 576 páginas How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the U.S., an innovator informational state. As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20 information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system, she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of several information policy issues in each category affected. Change of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that come with the transformation to the informational state. |
Contenido
The Bias of the Informational State | 9 |
Information Policy for the TwentyFirst | 39 |
Translate Recommendations into the Terms of Legacy | 77 |
Constitutional Principles and the Information Spaces They | 79 |
Information Policy and Identity | 117 |
Information Policy and Identity | 123 |
Mediating the Identities of the Individual and the Informational | 155 |
Mutually Constituted Identities of the Individual and | 166 |
Information Policy and Change | 259 |
Information Policy and Change in Information Systems | 293 |
Information Policy and Power in the Informational State | 313 |
Bibliographic Essays | 329 |
The Bias of the Informational | 335 |
Information Policy for the Twentyfirst | 346 |
Information Policy and Identity | 352 |
Information Policy and Structure | 369 |
Information Policy and Structure | 167 |
Information Policy and Technological Structure | 193 |
Information Policy and Informational Structure | 205 |
Information Policy and Borders | 221 |
Borders of the Technological System | 239 |
Informational Borders | 248 |
Information Policy and Borders | 394 |
Information Policy and Change | 405 |
References | 419 |
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