The Information Society
An Introduction
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd
- Date of Publication 12 March 2003
- ISBN 9780761949480
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages182 pages
- Size 197x129 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change. He also asks why the notion has come to be dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced.
MoreLong description:
The impact of the `information society' are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication.
In this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the 21st Century. Critically, he also asks why the notion has come to dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the Information Society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualised as a theoretical concept as well as policy making tool.
This introduction will be of interest to all students of media and communication, as well as social scientists in general.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
The Cult of Numbers
Managing the Industrial and Scientific Age
The Emergence of Computers
Post-industrial Scenarios
The Metamorphoses of Public Policy
The Geopolitical Stakes of the Global Information Society
