Key Thinkers for the Information Society provides an introduction to some important social theorists whose work has considerable relevance to today's 'brave new world' of information and communication technologies. With the aim of widening current perspectives on the information society, each contributor introduces a particular theorist and discusses the way in which their insights can be reintroduced into debates regarding the social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. Theorists presented in Volume 1 include some well-known and some less well-known figures: Walter Benjamin; Murray Edeleman; Jacques Ellul; Harold Innes; Lewis Mumford; Karl Polanyi; Eric Elmer Scattachneider and Raymond Williams. Each has something fresh and pertinent to say and taken as a whole this volume provides an exciting new resource for contemporary studies.
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Many people, in policy-making circles, in the press, in universities, claim we have entered a new age, governed by a 'new paradigm' where society and its economic relations are no longer primarily organised on the basis of material goods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authoritarian technics, enclosing dynamic, democratic technics, secondary myths, artwork essay, electronic face, global information society, digital reproduction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lewis Mumford, United States, White House, Walter Benjamin, Frankfurt School, Harold Innis, Murray Edelman, The Semisovereign People, World Wide Web, Cold War, Jacques Ellul, Oxford University Press, Raymond Williams, Second World War, Soviet Union, University of Chicago Press, University of Toronto, Cambridge University Press, Department of Commerce, Donna Haraway, Downing Street, Harvard University Press, Nicholas Negroponte, Alvin Toffler New!
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Many people, in policy-making circles, in the press, in universities, claim we have entered a new age, governed by a 'new paradigm' where society and its economic relations are no longer primarily organised on the basis of material goods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
authoritarian technics, enclosing dynamic, democratic technics, secondary myths, artwork essay, electronic face, global information society, digital reproduction Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Lewis Mumford, United States, White House, Walter Benjamin, Frankfurt School, Harold Innis, Murray Edelman, The Semisovereign People, World Wide Web, Cold War, Jacques Ellul, Oxford University Press, Raymond Williams, Second World War, Soviet Union, University of Chicago Press, University of Toronto, Cambridge University Press, Department of Commerce, Donna Haraway, Downing Street, Harvard University Press, Nicholas Negroponte, Alvin Toffler New!
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- Walter Benjamin by Julian Roberts on 5 pages
- The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul on 4 pages
- Constructing the Political Spectacle by Murray Edelman on 4 pages
- Empire and Communications by Harold A. Innis on page 90, page 107, and page 153
- The Bias of Communication by Harold A. Innis in Front Matter, page 89, and page 107
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