Theories of the information society /
"Popular opinion suggests that information has become a distinguishing feature of the modern world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now instead said to be part of a global information economy. In the first edition of Theories of the Information Society Frank Web...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | International library of sociology.
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Table of Contents:
- The idea of an information society
- The information society as post-industrialism : Daniel Bell
- Information, restructuring and globalisation
- Information capitalism : Manuel Castells
- Information and advanced capitalism : Herbert Schiller
- Information management and manipulation : Jürgen Habermas and the concept of the public sphere
- Information, reflexivity and surveillance : Anthony Giddens
- Information, postmodernism and postmodernity
- Conclusion : is there an information society?