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Helsinki Summer School 2000 z Course: Information Society as Risk Society z Place: Meritullinkatu 1, Merisali z Time: 10-12 am, July 24 to August 11, 2000.

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1 Helsinki Summer School 2000 z Course: Information Society as Risk Society z Place: Meritullinkatu 1, Merisali z Time: 10-12 am, July 24 to August 11, 2000 Lecturer: Helena Tapper, University of Helsinki, Department of Communication z Tutors: Taina Joutsenvirta and Yonca Ermutlu

2 Course program: z Monday, July 24 Information Society or Knowledge Society? Conceptual analysis and brief History of Information Society z Tuesday, July 25 Risk, uncertainty and information society. Discussion of Beck, Castells and Bauman & others

3 Course program z Wednesday July 26Orientations to Information Society, a critical discussion by Dr. Sam Inkinen, University of Vaasa, Finland z zThursday, July 27Telecommunications and economic growth, ICT's role in the Finnish economy

4 Course program z Friday, July 28Visit to Nokia, host Mr. Jyrki Rosenberg, Communications Manager z Monday, July 31Organizing the team work. Information Society, theory and practice, lessons learned z Tuesday, August 1Castells, network society anf globalization z Wednesday, August 2Globalization z

5 Course program z Tuesday, August 1Castells, network society anf globalization z Wednesday, August 2Globalization z Thursday, August 3African perspective to information society, the case of Tanzania by Dr. Sirkku Hellsten z Friday, August 4Beginning of team work, tutored by Taina Joutsenvirta and Yonca Ermutlu z

6 Course program z Monday, August 7 -Team work z Wednesday, August 9 z z Thursday, August 10-Teams present their papers z Friday August 11 From 10 am to 2 pm z

7 List of readings z Readings: z Bauman, Z. (1998): Globalization. The Human Consequences. Cambridge: Polity Press. z Beck, U. (1992): Risk Society. London: Sage. z Beck, U. & Giddens A. & Lash S. (1994): Reflexive Modernization. Cambridge: Polity Press

8 List of readings Castells, M. (1996): The Rise of the Network Society. London: Blackwell Publishers z Lash, S. & Urry, J. (1994): Economies of Signs and Space. London: Sage z Webster, F. (1995): Theories of the Information Society. London: Routledge


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