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ACCESS DENIED: The Beginning and End of the
Information Society
A conference at the Institute of Communications
Studies, University of Leeds.
Friday 25th September, 1998
We are continually reminded that the new
information and communications technologies offer
us unlimited access to information and
unparallelled opportunities. Yet as the
technological possibilities become ever greater,
the problems of old remain with us and show no
sign of being eradicated. Inequalities in wealth,
health, employment and education appear to be
increasing rather than diminishing. So are the
claims for a new information society now
discredited? Did they ever have any validity? Why
should the new communications technologies create
a different society from the old ones?
This conference will hear from international
speakers how all is not well in the information
age. Access to technology and to the means to
make use of it are far from equal, and moreover
show no signs of becoming more so. Other papers
will highlight the potential of the technologies
to help bring about change, and discuss whether
that potential is likely to be realised.
Speakers
Professor William Dutton, University of Southern
California.
Information Politics in the Digital Age:
Reflections on the Galaxy IV Pager Blackout
Professor Frank Webster, Oxford Brookes
University.
Public Knowledgeability in the Information
Age
David Morrison and Michael Svennevig, University
of Leeds
Public perception of new communications
technologies.
Other speakers
Mercy Wambui, APC Women's Network and UN Economic
Commission for Africa
Alison Sheldon Disability Research Unit,
University of Leeds
Pete Reffell University of Leeds
What is a theory of information? Theoretical
overtures for the 'age of information'
More details at www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/informed.htm
Conference fee £15 (includes lunch)
To book a place please send the fee (cheques
payable to 'University of Leeds') with the form
below to: Stephen Lax, Institute of
Communications Studies, University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT.
Tel: 0113 233 5817 Fax 0113 233 5820 Email
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University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
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Fax +44 (0)113 233 5820
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ics/informed.htm
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