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The information society reader
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
2004
Language
English
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Introduction : Information society studies / Frank Webster
Part I. The information society : Introduction / Frank Webster
Advocates : Image of the future information society / Yoneji Masuda
Living on thin air / Charles Leadbeater
Cyberspace and the American dream / Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth and Alvin Toffler
Critics : Who will we be in cyberspace? / Langdon Winner
The cult of information / Theodore Roszak
The long history of the information revolution / Kevin Robins and Frank Webster
Part II. Post-industrial society : Introduction / Harri Melin
Post-industrial society / Daniel Bell
From post-industrial to post-modern society / Krishan Kumar
Is Britain the first post-industrial society? / John Urry
Part III. The network society : An introduction to the information age / Manuel Castells
The information city, the new economy, and the network society / Manuel Castells
Information society theory as ideology / Nicholas Garnham
Part IV. Transformations : Mobile sociology / John Urry
The three jobs of the future / Robert B. Reich
The economic structure of knowledge societies / Nico Stehr
Forms of technological embodiment / Anne Balsamo
Part V. Divisions : Introduction / Kaarle Nordenstreng
Data deprivation / Herbert Schiller
The digital divide / Pippa Norris
The degradation of the practical arts / Christopher Lasch
Part VI. Surveillance : Introduction / Raimo Blom
Panopticism / Michel Foucault
Managing the informated organization / Shoshana Zuboff
New directions in theory / David Lyon
Part VII. Democracy : Introduction / Erkki Karvonen
The public sphere / Jürgen Habermas
The media and the public sphere / Nicholas Garnham
Structural transformations of the public sphere / John Keane
The virtual sphere: The Internet as a public sphere / Zizi Papacharissi
Part VIII. Virtualities : Introduction / Ensio Puoskari
The mode of information and postmodernity / Mark Poster
For a cultural future / Eric Michaels
The future looms: weaving women and cybernetics / Sadie Plant.
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9780415319287
9780415319270
9780415319270
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