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<nettime> Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society


MetaMute

July 2003 [Issue 26 (Summer/Autumn)]

Dissembly Language:
Unzipping the World Summit on the Information Society

By Alan Toner

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) has
already attracted the attention of the critical media
community. Here, Alan Toner of Autonomedia and New York's
Information Law Institute examines what's at stake at the
Summit and how its agenda reflects changes in the post-
industrial location of power, describing some working
strategies for intervention in the WSIS process from
independent and contestatory communications groups
formed outside last year's European Social Forum.

Full Text:

http://www.metamute.com/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=1&NrIssue=26&NrSection=10&NrArticle=873&ST_max=0

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Art McGee
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Virtual Identity
Communications+Media+Technology
1-510-967-9381

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