The Information Society, Volume 20

Volume 20, Number 1, 2004

• Harmeet S. Sawhney: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.

• Pernilla Gripenberg, Ingjerd Skogseid, Francesco Botto, Andrea Silli, Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen:
  Entering the European Information Society: Four rural development projects.
  
• Maung K. Sein, G. Harindranath:
  Conceptualising the ICT Artefact: Towards Understanding the Role of ICT in National Development.
  
• Nadia Caidi:
  National Information Infrastructures in Central and Eastern Europe: Perspectives from the Library Community.
  
• Angela Coco, Patricia Short:
  History and Habit in the Mobilisation of ICT Resources.
  

• Bart Prakken: Uncertainty, Information and (Re)Organization.

• Larry J. Mikulecky: Cyberliteracy: Navigating the Internet with Awareness, by L. J. Gurak. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001.
• Carrie Heeter: Multimedia: From Wagner to Virtual Reality, edited by Randall Packer and Ken Jordan. New York: Norton, 2001.
• Philip Mirowski: Metal and Flesh, by Ollivier Dyens. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
• Sal Restivo: Mechanizing Proof: Computing, Risk, and Trust, by D. MacKenzie. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2001.
• Phyllis Bernt: Internet Telephony, edited by L.W. McKnight, W. Lehr, and D.D. Clark. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
• William Wresch: The Information Age: Technology, Learning and Exclusion in Wales, by N. Selwyn and S. Gorard. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002.
• Laura J. Gurak: Critical Literacy in a Digital Era: Technology, Rhetoric, and the Public Interest, by Barbara Warnick. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002.
• Christina L. Ogan: Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing, by Jane Margolis and Allan Fisher. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.

Volume 20, Number 2, 2004

• Harmeet S. Sawhney: Letter from the Editor-in-Chief.

• James Watt: "In the technical vastness of the future, we can guess that surely the past was very different".
• Kenneth L. Kraemer: Rob Kling Remembered: The Early Beginnings of Social Analysis of Computing in the URBIS Project.
• Barry Wellman, Starr Roxanne Hiltz: Sociological Rob: How Rob Kling Brought Computing and Sociology Together.
• John Leslie King: Rob Kling and the Irvine School.

• Kristin R. Eschenfelder, Anuj C. Desai:
  Software as Protest: the Unexpected Resiliency of U.S. Based DeCSS Posting and Linking.
  
• David Lewis, Shirin Madon:
  Information Systems and Non-Governmental Development Organisations: Advocacy, Organisational Learning, and Accountability.
  
• James M. Hudson, Amy Bruckman:
  "Go Away": Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research.
  

• William Gardner: Compelled Disclosure of Scientific Research Data.

• Leah A. Lievrouw: Critique of Information, by S. Lash. London: Sage Publications, 2002.
• Ernest J. Wilson III: Global Media Governance: A Beginner's Guide, by Sean O Siochru and Bruce Girard, with Amy Mahan. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.
• Steve Sawyer: Managing the Human Side of Information Technology: Challenges and Solutions, edited by Edward Szewczak and Coral Snodgrass. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2002.
• Noriko Hara: Web-based Learning and Teaching Technologies: Opportunities and Challenges, edited by A. Aggarwal. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2000.

Volume 20, Number 3, 2004

• Milton Mueller, Becky Lentz:
  Revitalizing Communication and Information Policy Research. 155-157
  

• Hernan Galperin:
  Beyond Interests, Ideas, and Technology: An Institutional Approach to Communication and Information Policy. 159-168
  
• Milton Mueller, Christiane Pagé, Brenden Kuerbis:
  Civil Society and the Shaping of Communication-Information Policy: Four Decades of Advocacy. 169-185
  
• Ian Hosein:
  The Sources of Laws: Policy Dynamics in a Digital and Terrorized World. 187-199
  
• Audrey N. Selian:
  The World Summit on the Information Society and Civil Society Participation. 201-215
  
• Kenton T. Wilkinson:
  Language Difference and Communication Policy in the Information Age. 217-229
  

• Bertram C. Bruce:
  Digital Developments in Higher Education: Theory and Practice, edited by Peter Roberts and Mark Chambers, Cambridge, UK: Taylor Graham Publishing, 2001, 190 pp, ISBN 0-947568-78-6. 231-232
  
• Ewa Callahan:
  Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village, edited by Charles Ess with Fay Sudweeks, Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001, 355 pp, ISBN 0-7914-5016-3. 233-234
  
• Robert M. Davison:
  Virtuality Check: Power Relations and Alternative Strategies in the Information Society, by François Fortier, London and New York: Verso, 2001, vii + 145 pp, ISBN 1-85984-628-9. 235-236
  
• Cheryl Knott Malone:
  Gender & Community in the Social Construction of the Internet, by Leslie Regan Shade, New York: Peter Lang, 2002, viii + 152 pp, ISBN 0-8204-5023-5. 237-238
  

Volume 20, Number 4, 2004

• Tarleton Gillespie:
  Copyright and Commerce: The DMCA, Trusted Systems, and the Stabilization of Distribution. 239-254
  
• Pablo Boczkowski:
  The Mutual Shaping of Technology and Society in Videotex Newspapers: Beyond the Diffusion and Social Shaping Perspectives. 255-267
  
• A. J. M. Shafiul Alam Bhuiyan:
  Universal Access in Developing Countries: A Particular Focus on Bangladesh. 269-278
  
• Eevi Beck, Shirin Madon, Sundeep Sahay:
  On the Margins of the "Information Society": A Comparative Study of Mediation. 279-290
  
• Paul de Laat:
  Evolution of Open Source Networks in Industry. 291-299
  

• Malcolm Brynin:
  The Internet in Everyday Life, edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, with foreword by Howard Rheingold and preface by Manuel Castells, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, xxxviii + 586 pp, ISBN 0-631-23508-6. 301-302
  
• Hao Xiaoming:
  Chinese Media, Global Contexts, edited by Chin-Chuan Lee, London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003, xii + 275 pp, ISBN 0-415-30334-6. 303-304
  
• Jeff Hart:
  Competition for Technology Leadership: EU Policy for High Technology, by Johan Lembke, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2002, xiv + 313 pp, ISBN 1-84064-792-2. 305
  
• Junghoon Kim:
  Internet Governance in Transition: Who Is the Master of This Domain? by Daniel J. Pare, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003, 208 pp, ISBN 0-74251-846-9. 307-308
  
• Danielle Lawson:
  Gender Scripts and the Internet: The Design and Use of Amsterdam's Digital City, by Els Rommes, Enschede, The Netherlands: Twente University Press, 2002, 304 pp, ISBN 9-0365-1774-5. 309-310
  
• Alice Robbin:
  Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology, Community, and Public Policy, by Lisa J. Servon, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, xix + 273 pp, ISBN 0-631-23242-7. 311-312
  

Volume 20, Number 5, 2004

• Steven Bellman, Eric J. Johnson, Stephen J. Kobrin, Gerald L. Lohse:
  International Differences in Information Privacy Concerns: A Global Survey of Consumers. 313-324
  
• Martin J. Eppler, Jeanne Mengis:
  The Concept of Information Overload: A Review of Literature from Organization Science, Accounting, Marketing, MIS, and Related Disciplines. 325-344
  
• Christina Courtright:
  Which Lessons Are Learned? Best Practices and World Bank Rural Telecommunications Policy. 345-356
  
• Michael R. Curry, David J. Phillips, Priscilla M. Regan:
  Emergency Response Systems and the Creeping Legibility of People and Places. 357-369
  

• Erik P. Bucy:
  Interactivity in Society: Locating an Elusive Concept. 373-383
  
• S. Shyam Sundar:
  Theorizing Interactivity's Effects. 385-389
  
• Jennifer Stromer-Galley:
  Interactivity-as-Product and Interactivity-as-Process. 391-394
  
• John E. Newhagen:
  Interactivity, Dynamic Symbol Processing, and the Emergence of Content in Human Communication. 395-400
  

• Paul Bocij:
  Dot.cons: Crime, Deviance and Identity on the Internet, edited by Yvonne Jewkes, Devon: Willan Publishing, 2002, 256 pp, ISBN 1-843-92000-X. 401-402
  
• Blaise Cronin:
  Digital Scholarship in the Tenure, Promotion, and Review Process, edited by Deborah Lines Andersen, Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2003. x + 277 pp, ISBN 0-7656-1114-7. 403-404
  
• Michael Filas:
  Machines That Become Us: The Social Context of Personal Communication Technology, edited by James E. Katz, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2003, 331 pp, ISBN 0-7658-0158-2. 405-408
  
• Lynette Kvasny:
  Virtual Inequality: Beyond the Digital Divide, by Karen Mossberger, Caroline J. Tolbert, and Mary Stansbury, Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2003, xvi + 192 pp, ISBN: 0-87840-999-8. 409-410
  
• Alice Robbin:
  governance.com: Democracy in the Information Age, edited by Elaine C. Kamarck and Joseph S. Nye, Jr, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 2002, x + 192 pp, ISBN 0815702175. 411-412