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Tables of Contents for The Information Society Reader
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
series editor's preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xi
Frank Webster
INTRODUCTION: INFORMATION SOCIETY STUDIES
1
8
PART ONE
The Information society
9
4
Frank Webster
INTRODUCTION
9
4
Advocates
13
30
1 Yoneji Masuda
IMAGE OF THE FUTURE INFORMATION SOCIETY
15
6
2 Charles Leadbeater
LIVING ON THIN AIR
21
10
3 Esther Dyson, George Gilder, George Keyworth and Alvin Toffler
CYBERSPACE AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
31
12
Critics
43
38
4 Langdon Winner
WHO WILL WE BE IN CYBERSPACE?
45
10
5 Theodore Roszak
THE CULT OF INFORMATION
55
7
6 Kevin Robins and Frank Webster
THE LONG HISTORY OF THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
62
19
PART TWO
Post-Industrial society
81
52
Harri Melin
INTRODUCTION
81
5
7 Daniel Bell
POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
86
17
8 Krishan Kumar
FROM POST-INDUSTRIAL TO POST-MODERN SOCIETY
103
18
9 John Urry
IS BRITAIN THE FIRST POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY?
121
12
PART THREE
The Network Society
133
52
Frank Webster
INTRODUCTION
133
5
10 Manuel Castells
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INFORMATION AGE
138
12
11 Manuel Castells
THE INFORMATION CITY, THE NEW ECONOMY, AND THE NETWORK SOCIETY
150
15
12 Nicholas Garnham
INFORMATION SOCIETY THEORY AS IDEOLOGY
165
20
PART FOUR
Transformations
185
70
Frank Webster
INTRODUCTION
185
5
13 John Urry
MOBILE SOCIOLOGY
190
14
14 Robert Reich
THE THREE JOBS OF THE FUTURE
204
8
15 Nico Stehr
THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES
212
25
16 Anne Balsamo
FORMS OF TECHNOLOGICAL EMBODIMENT
237
18
PART FIVE
Divisions
255
42
Kaarle Nordenstreng
INTRODUCTION
255
5
17 Herbert Schiller
DATA DEPRIVATION
260
13
18 Pippa Norris
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
273
14
19 Christopher Lasch
THE DEGRADATION OF THE PRACTICAL ARTS
287
10
PART SIX
Surveillance
297
48
Raimo Biom
INTRODUCTION
297
5
20 Michel Foucault
PANOPTICISM
302
11
21 Shoshana Zuboff
MANAGING THE IN FORMATED ORGANIZATION
313
14
22 David Lyon
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THEORY
327
18
PART SEVEN
Democracy
345
48
Erkki Karvonen
INTRODUCTION
345
5
23 Jürgen Habermas
THE PUBLIC SPHERE
350
7
24 Nicholas Garnham
THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
357
9
25 John Keane
STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
366
13
26 Zizi Papacharissi
THE VIRTUAL SPHERE: THE INTERNET AS A PUBLIC SPHERE
379
14
PART EIGHT
Virtualities
393
46
Ensio Puoskari
INTRODUCTION
393
5
27 Mark Poster
THE MODE OF INFORMATION AND POSTMODERNITY
398
13
28 Eric Michaels
FOR A CULTURAL FUTURE
411
13
29 Sadie Plant
THE FUTURE LOOMS: WEAVING WOMEN AND CYBERNETICS
424
15
Index
439