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An information society is a society or subculture where the usage, creation, distribution, manipulation and integration of information is a significant activity. [1] Its main drivers are information and communication technologies, which have resulted in rapid growth of a variety of forms of information.
The book has been also reviewed in academic journals such as Global Media and Communication, [17] Information Economics and Policy, [18] Information Processing & Management, [19] International Journal of Technology, Knowledge, and Society, [20] Journal of Business and Technical Communication, [21] Journal of Media Economics, [22] Journal on ...
Frank Webster (born 27 September 1950) is a British sociologist.His critical writing on the "information society" has been translated into many languages, widely discussed [1] and criticized. [2]
Social theories are analytical frameworks, or paradigms, that are used to study and interpret social phenomena. [1] A tool used by social scientists, social theories relate to historical debates over the validity and reliability of different methodologies (e.g. positivism and antipositivism), the primacy of either structure or agency, as well as the relationship between contingency and necessity.
James Gleick talks about The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood on Bookbits radio. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood is a book by science history writer James Gleick, published in March 2011, which covers the genesis of the current Information Age. It was on The New York Times best-seller list for three weeks following its ...
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture is a trilogy of books by sociologist Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society (1996), The Power of Identity (1997), and End of Millennium (1998). The second edition was heavily revised; volume one is 40 percent different from the first edition.
Manuel Castells Oliván (Catalan: [kəsˈteʎs]; born 9 February 1942) is a Spanish sociologist.He is well known for his authorship of a trilogy of works, entitled The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture.
His most influential books are, The End of Ideology (1960), The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), [19] and The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973). [20] Two of his books, the End of Ideology and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, were listed by the Times Literary Supplement as among the 100 most important books in the ...