Drawing together the most current work upon the social, economic and cultural impact of the emerging properties of the new information and communications technologies, this journal positions itself at the centre of contemporary debates about the information age. Information, Communication & Society (iCS) transcends cultural and geographical boundaries as it explores a diverse range of issues relating to the development and application of information and communications technologies (ICTs), asking such questions as:

• What are the new and evolving forms of social software? What direction will these forms take?
• ICTs facilitating globalization; and how might this affect conceptions of local identity, ethnic differences and regional sub-cultures?
• Are ICTs leading to an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for policing criminal activity, citizen privacy, and public expression?
• How are ICTs affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care and leisure activities?
• To what extent do the virtual worlds constructed using ICTs impact on the construction of objects, spaces and entities in the material world?

iCS analyses such questions from a global, interdisciplinary perspective in contributions of the very highest quality from scholars and practitioners in the social sciences, gender and cultural studies, communication and media studies, as well as in the information and computer sciences.

From this site it is possible to browse the Table of Contents of the past and current issues of iCS and read the article abstracts free of charge. You can sign up for a free Online Sample Copy of the journal and also register to have the tables of contents for forthcoming issues of iCS emailed directly to you through the informaworld alerting service. Also provided is an extensive Resources section that provides links to key sites of interest within this growing field of research.

Read about the latest Information, Communication & Society Webcast here:
30th October 2006 - Oxford Internet Institute

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Call for Papers: Key Thinkers - New Editorship of iCS Special Series - Key Thinkers: Past and Present.

Peer Review Policy:
Published articles in iCS have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and anonymous refereeing by at least two referees.