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Hmm, I turned up another interesting article by Ajit Pyati,
this one in the online journal First Monday.
"WSIS: Whose vision of an information society?"
Abstract:
The United Nations (UN) and International Telecommunication
Union (ITU), in their development of the World Summit on
the Information Society (WSIS), are contributing to the
on-going discourse of the "Information Society." This
study analyzes how WSIS contributes to the on-going
Information Society discourse, especially how it frames a
vision of an Information Society and the global "digital
divide." The methodology of this study is a broad,
comprehensive, and critical content analysis of the two
main documents of WSIS, its Declaration of Principles and
Plan of Action. The content analysis utilizes discourse
analysis and ideology critique, and quantitative and
qualitative methods. The results of the analysis show
that WSIS paints a wholly utopian, technologically
deterministic picture of an "Information Society" that
oversimplifies and generalizes a complex issue and
phenomenon, about which no clear consensus exists.
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_5/pyati/index.html
Conrad
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