Associative duties, institutional change, and agency: the challenge of the Global Information Society Robyn Brothers rbrothers@adelphia, net he decline of the sovereign power of the nation-state tion. The dependence upon the nation-state by liberal theoin the face of global forces and the resulting rise in rists and their sympathizers should be called into question. nationalism and ethnocentrism has prompted fruitful In part two, I discuss why this dependence cannot be maindiscussions about patriotism, cosmopolitanism and the lim- tained when theorizing a Global Information Society. I speits of egalitarianism in the equivocal 'global village.' This cifically question the effects of the growth of ICT upon the global society that is the object of so much optimism (and relationship between the individual agent and sovereign inpessimism) is of course being made possible by the ICT stitutions. And finally in part three, I consider the limits of revolution, whose reverberations are being felt in the eco- the kind of flexible agency required by the information age nomic, political, and social spheres. I find it somewhat mis- and whether agency as assumed by liberal theorists is still guided, therefore, that speculations abounding among po- plausible. My conclusion is that it is not.
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Associative duties, institutional change, and agency: the challenge of the global information society
Brothers, Robyn
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Association for Computing Machinery – Mar 1, 1999
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