Naslov
Counter-Information Systems: who does the information serve?

Autori
Mraović, Branka

Izvornik
Haw, Roger (ed.) ; SRW Social Responsibility World of RecordPedia 2004, Ansted University Asia Regional Service Center, Penang, Malaysia, 236 pages ; ISBN: 983-41879-0-4 ; pp. 117-118

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, ostalo

Godina
2004

Ključne riječi
Counter-Information Systems

Sažetak
Counter-Information Systems - CISs, initiated by radical accounting - allow a take off of the "social audit" and make legitimate the demands for openness and transparency posed by pressure groups to governments, the corporate sector and the accounting profession. It is these critically oriented authors who made a significant move to mobilize public opinion in the struggle against neutrality in viewing accounting. New technologies are used for implementing new political relations, which Webster (1999) calls "techno-communitarism" and they emerge as an alternative to the "notion of private society" from the era of neo-liberalism. Their power should be mirrored in making social realities rather than in revealing or giving sense to a previously existing reality. Counter-information systems-type activists, with the assistance of the opportunities provided by global and electronic communication technology, have moved their initiatives towards the global level, just as the corporations' efforts to transform these initiatives into the company image and thus take the political edge off of them have also intensified on the global level.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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