Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects

by Majid Tehranian

Book Overview

Within a comparative, theoretical and global network, this volume focuses on the impact of information technologies on the prospects for democratic development. It deals with the hopes as well as the fears for democracy and development that have emerged out of the current technological revolution in information and communication. The volume argues that information technologies have historically played a dual and paradoxical role in political formations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089391634X
• ISBN13: 9780893916343
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"