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What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurrent nightmare of capitalism, where the processes of exploitation, commodification and alienation are given much freer rein than ever before. In this book Robert Hassan, a prominent theorist in new media and its effects, analyses and critically appraises these positions and forms them into a coherent narrative to illuminate the phenomenon. Surveying the works of major information society theorists from Daniel Bell to Nicholas Negroponte, and from Vincent Mosco to Manuel Castells, The Information Society is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature of the information society—as well as the meta-processes of neoliberal globalisation and the revolution in information technologies that made it possible.

Hardcover:

9780745641799 | Polity Pr, November 10, 2008, cover price $69.95

Paperback:

9780745641805 | Polity Pr, November 10, 2008, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: What are we to make of the information society?

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For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the regime of the clock are changing rapidly, including the way individuals save, spend, and optimize time. At the organizational level, the pacing of innovation, levels of production, and new product development, are no longer temporally fixed due to the effects of living in a networked society and in the networked economy. 24/7 brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to analyze the differing relationships to time in an accelerated society. Offering much-needed insight and perspective into new issues and problems, this unique volume is the first to offer a wide range of cutting-edge thought on the new economic, cultural, and political world of the networked society. The book includes contributions from the leading scholars in this area, such as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert Lovink.
By Robert Hassan (editor) and Ronald E. Purser (editor)

Hardcover:

9780804751964 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $65.00

Paperback:

9780804751971 | Stanford Univ Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world.

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9780335217113 | Open Univ Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $189.00

Paperback:

9780335217106 | Open Univ Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $43.00

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