Theories of the information society / / Frank Webster

• Autore: Webster Frank
• Pubblicazione: London and New York : , : Routledge, , 1995
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (261 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2; 303.4833
• Soggetto topico: Communication - Social aspects; Communication - Technological innovations; Information society; Information technology; Information policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: 20LLNG08002
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 INFORMATION AND THE IDEA OF AN INFORMATION SOCIETY; 3 THE INFORMATION SOCIETY AS POST-INDUSTRIALISM: DANIEL BELL; 4 INFORMATION, THE NATION STATE AND SURVEILLANCE: ANTHONY GIDDENS; 5 INFORMATION AND ADVANCED CAPITALISM HERBERT SCHILLER; 6 INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND MANIPULATION: JURGEN HABERMAS AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE; 7 INFORMATION AND RESTRUCTURING: BEYOND FORDISM?; 8 INFORMATION AND POSTMODERNISM; 9 INFORMATION AND URBAN CHANGE: MANUEL CASTELLS; 10 CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Webster sets out to make sense of the information explosion. He looks closely at the different approaches to informational developments and provides critical commentaries on all major post-war theorists.
• Titolo autorizzato: Theories of the information society
• ISBN: 1-134-46026-0; 1-134-46029-5; 1-280-11495-9; 0-203-99136-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910305545903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: International library of sociology.