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First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since the mid-1980s, Turkey has experienced a rapid transformation. The essays in this book examine the key issues about the construction of a mediated public sphere appropriate to the changed social and cultural context in the new Turkey.

Product Description: Book by Levidow, Les