Development: A Cultural Studies Reader
Author: Schech
This book of readings gathers together some of the most influential contributions that reflect on the relationship between culture and development.
Book about: Investment or Management and Information Systems for the Information Age3e
Theories of the Information Society
Author: Frank Webster
In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theory and anybody interested in social and technological change in the post-war era.
Table of Contents:
| Acknowledgements | ||
| 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| 2 | The idea of an information society | 8 |
| 3 | The information society as post-industrialism: Daniel Bell | 30 |
| 4 | Information, restructuring and globalisation | 59 |
| 5 | Informational capitalism: Manuel Castells | 97 |
| 6 | Information and advanced capitalism: Herbert Schiller | 124 |
| 7 | Information management and manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the concept of the public sphere | 161 |
| 8 | Information, reflexivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens | 202 |
| 9 | Information, postmodernism and postmodernity | 227 |
| 10 | Conclusion: is there an information society? | 263 |
| Bibliography | 274 | |
| Index | 299 |
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