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Michael D Mehta Environmental Policy Unit Queen’s University [email protected] Abstract Relatively few social scientists have studied citizen protest groups concerned with civilian nuclear power, and the relationship between political conflict over risk and regulation of the nuclear industry. Drawing from…

James Curry Department of Social Studies El Colegio de la Frontera Norte [email protected] Abstract It is now almost taken for granted that we are living in an economic era in which knowledge and information are of crucial importance in the…

Greg Smith Department of Sociology University of Salford My thanks to Jim Chriss, Carol Brooks Gardner, Brian Longhurst, Andrew Travers, Candace West and two EJS referees who commented on an earlier draft of this paper to my advantage. Abstract The…

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Melissa Smith School of Social Science. University of Queensland Philip Smith Department of Sociology. Yale University. Abstract Taking a cue from Robert Merton’s concept of “dysfunctions”, this study takes prohibition policies to be a problem for users of “hard drugs”.…

Btihaj Ajana Goldsmiths College, University of London [email protected] Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the entangled relationship between the technology of cyberspace and the rhetoric of disembodiment by using Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach. I start with an overview…

Joseph D. Diaz Department of Sociology University of Nevada Las Vegas [email protected] Preface And Introduction When I began this project I had no idea where it would go or the form it would take. I write this note now having…

Richard Ling Telenor Research and Development [email protected] Abstract Many people are uneasy with the rapid spread of new forms of electronic communication and media such as the internet, video on demand, electronic agents, teletorg numbers (premium rate services), satellite TV,…

Bradley Nash, Jr. Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Introduction The Internet, the worldwide network of computer networks, is rapidly transforming the production, consumption, and distribution of knowledge and information. Not only is information made available in…

Mauri Collins The Pennsylvania State University Zane Berge Georgetown University [email protected] Abstract This paper reviews some of the literature on multiple job holders to set the stage for reporting the results of an exploratory study conducted on the Internet involving…