Information Communication & Society

期刊简介：Drawing together leading work upon the social, political, economic, and cultural impact of evolving information and communication technologies (ICTs), 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 these technologies, asking such questions as: How are existing and developing forms of communication combining individual, social and machine inputs and what are the consequences of their intersections for culture, politics, the economy or society? What direction will these forms take? As ICT usage is scaling rapidly and widely, underlying technologies operate predominately under a logic of segmentation and specialisation for the advancement of commercial aims. How might this development affect conceptions of identity, belonging, culture or society? How are ICTs, and processes in which they are implicated such as the automation of routine tasks, affecting daily life and social structures such as the family, friendships, work and organization, commerce and business, education, health care, and leisure activities? To what extent are ICTs enabling an age of electronic surveillance and social control? What are the implications for citizen privacy, social equity, public expression, economic and political participation or policing criminal activity? What are the consequences of using ICTs for material objects, spaces, and entities with which people interact and on which they rely? iCS analyses these 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. Peer Review Policy: Published articles in iCS have all been subjected to rigorous peer review comprising initial editorial screening and double anonymized refereeing by at least two referees.

【译文】该杂志汇集了有关不断发展的信息和通信技术（ICT）对社会、政治、经济和文化影响的领先著作，将自己置于当代信息时代辩论的中心。信息、通信与社会 (iCS) 超越了文化和地理界限，探讨了与这些技术的开发和应用相关的各种问题，提出了以下问题：现有和正在发展的通信形式如何结合个人、社会和机器输入，以及它们的交叉对文化、政治、经济或社会有何影响？这些形式将采取什么方向？随着信息通信技术的使用迅速而广泛地扩展，底层技术主要在细分和专业化的逻辑下运行，以促进商业目标的发展。这种发展会如何影响身份、归属感、文化或社会的概念？信息通信技术及其所涉及的流程（例如日常任务的自动化）如何影响日常生活和社会结构（例如家庭、友谊、工作和组织、商业和商业、教育、医疗保健和休闲活动）？信息通信技术在多大程度上促成了电子监控和社会控制的时代？这对公民隐私、社会公平、公共表达、经济和政治参与或监管犯罪活动有何影响？将信息通信技术用于人们与之互动和依赖的物质对象、空间和实体会产生什么后果？ iCS 从全球跨学科的角度分析这些问题，来自社会科学、性别和文化研究、传播和媒体研究以及信息和计算机科学领域的学者和从业者的最高质量的贡献。同行评审政策：iCS 中发表的文章均经过严格的同行评审，包括初步编辑筛选和至少两名审稿人的双重匿名审稿。