The Information Society: An Introduction / Edition 1

by Armand Mattelart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761949480
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/03/2003
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.08(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

Table 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