Creative Destruction? From the Welfare State to the Global Information Society

IF 1.7 3区 文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION Javnost-The Public Pub Date : 1997-01-01 DOI:10.1080/13183222.1997.11008657
A. Calabrese
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AbstractThe intellectual and political assaults on the welfare states of affluent societies are one half of a process of what Joseph Schumpeter calls “creative destruction”. The other half is the social construction of the idea and reality of the global information society. In this essay, the reasoning applied to dismantle the welfare state is examined, with particular attention being paid to its implications for the role of the state as cultural patron and guarantor of rights of access to the means of communication. Also examined are ways in which dominant visions of the information society draw upon the same reasoning that is applied to dismantling the welfare state. Contrary to prevailing mythology, the main trajectory of the development of the global information society is not toward the establishment of a free market, but rather it is aimed at the articulation and enforcement of rights of property ownership on behalf of global media and telecommunication cartels. One response to these decades-long de...
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创造性破坏?从福利国家到全球信息社会
摘要对富裕社会福利国家的智力和政治攻击是约瑟夫·熊彼特所说的“创造性破坏”过程的一半。另一半是全球信息社会的理念与现实的社会建构。在这篇文章中,我们研究了拆除福利国家的推理,特别关注了它对国家作为文化赞助人和获得传播手段权利的担保人的作用的影响。还研究了信息社会的主导愿景如何利用适用于拆除福利国家的相同推理。与流行的神话相反,全球信息社会发展的主要轨迹不是朝着建立自由市场的方向,而是以代表全球媒体和电信卡特尔的财产所有权的表达和执行为目标。对这些长达数十年的死亡的一种回应是……
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Javnost-The Public
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期刊介绍: Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
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