From this article abstract:
"Today, two great signs of change are occurring. On the one hand, the
capitalist world economy is putting tremendous pressure on the earth’s
biosphere and bringing an onslaught of destruction to immediate
environments and vulnerable people worldwide. On the other hand, the
rise of new and progressive social-economic foundations is the result of
an unprecedented increase of information and communication technologies
(ICTs). Therefore it is arguably more crucial than ever to understand
how social, economic and ecological foundations of the internet and ICT
infrastructures are interwoven. What are we – as scholars, activists and
citizens - to make of ICTs that seem to emerge from an economic and
social system based upon ecological destruction and social oppression,
while at the same time engaging millions of people in the proliferation
of information, knowledge and active democratic collaboration? This
special issue investigates how we can begin to understand this problem,
and how we can hope to balance the perils and promises of ICTs in order
to make way for a just and sustainable paradigm."
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