Principal Investigator Sherry Turkle
The emergence and global spread of information technologies has witnessed the parallel rise of powerful new discourse on the "information society." What is at stake in the multiple versions of "information society" that such discourse invokes? What new forms of power, control, governance and resistance within the architecture of information societies does such IT make visible? And what new forms of subjectivity and notions of self does it ultimately suggest?
Discussion topics include: Social and historical context to rhetoric on information societies; information/communication technologies, globalized markets and citizenship; the state and cultures of computation and simulation; technology, development and national/personal sovereignty; and the growth of global/local networks and media technologies.