NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN GLOBAL SOCIETIES

“It covers several different forms of mediation and gives the reader insight into a broad range of both policy and pragmatic issues associated with the adoption and use of these technologies. A very strong point is the heavy emphasis on the situation in China … China is, after all, the largest single mobile telephony market in the world. Thus, this volume does us all a service by providing some insight into the goings-on there. Another positive dimension of this volume is that it does not simply equate technology with the internet. Thus, it can correctly claim, as it does in its title, that it examines new technologies in a global context.”