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An outstanding line-up of contributors explore the regulation of the internet from an interdisciplinary perspective. In-depth coverage of this controversial area such as international political economy, law, politics, economics, sociology and internet regulation. Regulating the Global Information Society covers the differences between both US and UK approaches to regulation and establishes where policy is being made that will influence the future direction of the global information society, from commercial, democratic and middle-ground perspectives.

The new media available for creating and distributing information using digital profound changes in our world and have created a new paradigm with regard to the concept of "information society". From Latin America and Carribean's point of view, it is extremly important to determine how this new paradigm can contribute to the achievement of broader development objectives and the regions's full integration in the world information society.(ECLAC Notes/DÜI)

Sicherheit bei der Internetnutzung.

Ukraine is a modern European country with a fully developed system of democratic institutions and information society (Webster 2002). Yet, being one of the largest post-Soviet countries, it inherited a number of complex geopolitical problems, which since 1991 have been constantly monitored by key international actors such as The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) and Human Rights Watch (see Ukraine 2020). Through this monitoring, large-scale political conflicts – such as the armed conflict in the Donbass region, the annexation of Crimea (2014) and the Ukraine/U.S. relationship – and their human rights implications have received extensive research and human rights coverage (see for example Pifer 2017; Menon & Rumer 2015; Grias 2016, as well as my own research on the topic Pasholok (Korolkova) 2013), while smaller case studies attract significantly less attention. Yet, it is these smaller cases, and in particular cases related to media and information society development, that interest me in this research. By giving a voice to civil society organisations and non-government social justice actors, this research explores the current state of information society in the country from the bottom up. It questions the state of information society in the country through exploring local civil society organisations, and in the process of evaluation produces a set of action points that may be needed to support the development of information society in Ukraine.

The research is devoted to the information society phenomenon analysis both in theoretical aspect (the term genesis, the concept development) and in practice. The historical evolution of the information transfer technical means and social communication models is thoroughly analyzed. Primary attention is focused on modern technologies, which enabled the emergence of new social relations: the hypermedia (including the interactive television) and Internet platforms (Web 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0). Creation of a "virtual reality" predetermined the introduction of the so called "Network Society" – a society based on the Internet-communication. Not only wide factual evidence, but also different viewpoints on history, modern condition and prospects of the information society are provided in the article.