| Description |
xii, 449 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Routledge student readers |
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Routledge student readers.
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| Contents |
PART ONE: THE INFORMATION SOCIETY: 1. Image of the Future Information Society -- 2. Living on Thin Air -- 3. Cyberspace and the American Dream -- 4. Who Will We Be in Cyberspace? -- 5. The Cult of Information -- 6. The Long History of the Information Revolution -- PART TWO: POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: 7. Post-Industrial Society -- 8. From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society -- 9. Is Britain the First Post-Industrial Society? |
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PART THREE: THE NETWORK SOCIETY: 10. An Introduction to the Information Age -- 11. The Information City, the New Economy, and the Network Society -- 12. Information Society Theory as Ideology -- PART FOUR: TRANSFORMATIONS: 13. Mobile sociology -- 14. The Three Jobs of the Future --15. The Economic Structure of Knowledge Societies -- 16. Forms of Technological Embodiment -- PART FIVE: DIVISIONS: 17. Data Deprivation -- 18. The Digital Divide -- 19. Degradation of the Practical Arts -- PART SIX: SURVEILLANCE: 20. Panopticism -- 21. Managing the Informated Organization -- 22. New Directions in Theory |
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PART SEVEN: DEMOCRACY: 23. The Public Sphere -- 24. The Media and the Public Sphere -- 25. Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere -- 26. The Virtual Sphere: The Internet as a Public Sphere -- PART EIGHT: VIRTUALITIES: 27. The Mode of Information and Postmodernity -- 28. For a Cultural Future -- 29. The Future Looms: Weaving Women and Cybernetics |
| Summary |
There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, but others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. This reader pulls together the main contributions to this debate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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| Author |
Blom, Raimo.
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Webster, Frank.
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| LC no. |
2003012385 |
| ISBN |
0415319277 hardback alkaline paper |
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0415319285 paperback alkaline paper |
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