The information society reader

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.