Abstract

Abstract The continuing convergence of telecommunications, computing, and broadcasting technologies is fueling debates over the future of an information society. Central to these debates are issues surrounding the technology and policy for the development of information infrastructures on the national and global levels. Information infra­ structures are social and technological systems that interact with their environments (Hughes, 1989; Law, 1989). We can study multiple aspects of such systems, including institutional factors-players and stakes, technology and industrial policies, and the regulation of telecommunications on the national and international levels; technical factors-network development and architecture, equipment choices, and standards, including their influence on usability, flexibility, functionality, and compatibility; and societal factors-general attitudes of users toward technology and innovations, adoption and implementation strategies, privacy, consumer rights, equity of access, universal service, and values.

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