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Informationen zum Autor Ithiel de Sola Pool Klappentext I thiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist! a distinguished scholar of the political process! and one of the most original thinkers in the development of the social sciences. Passionately engaged in politics! he continued his role of leadership throughout his life! building the MIT Political Science Department into an outstanding group. He organized international teams of social scientists and collaborated widely to develop the understanding of social change. He was a advocate of limits on government regulation. Politics in Wired Nations presents his writing on the social and political impact of different communication systems and new telecommunications technology.Included in this volume is the first study of trends in a global information society! and the first study of social networks and the "small world" phenomenon that creates new relations and routes of informal influence and political power! both domestic and international. Pool's essays on the politics of foreign trade! the influence of American businessmen on Congress! and changeable "unnatural" institutions of the modern world (e.g.! bureaucracies! mega-cities! and nation-states) are herein contained. Zusammenfassung Ithiel de Sola Pool was a pioneering social scientist, a distinguished scholar of the political process, and one of the most original thinkers in the development of the social sciences Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: Political Communication 1. Introduction to Political Communication 2. Changing Images: The Role of Communications in the Process of Modernization 3. Newsmen’s Fantasies, Audiences, and Newswriting 4. Deterrence as an Influence Process 5. Contacts and Influence 6. American Politics: Congress and Its Constituents 7. Trends in Content Analysis Today: A Summary Part II: Societal Impact 8. Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone 9. Communications Technology and Land Use 10. The Mass Media and Politics in the Modernization Process 11. Four Unnatural Institutions and the Road Ahead Part III: Technology, Policy, and Freedom Editor’s Introduction 12. Tracking the Flow of Information 13. The Public and the Polity 14. Citizen Feedback in Political Philosophy 15. Communication and Integrated Planning 16. Technology and Confusion: The Satellite Broadcast Controversy in the U.N. 17. From Gutenberg to Electronics: Implications for the First Amendment 18. Policies for Freedom...
