The information society : an introduction
Armand Mattelart, Susan G. Taponier (Translator), James A. Cohen (Translator)
In this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the 21st Century. Critically, he also asks why the notion has come to dominate in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the Information Society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualised as a theoretical concept as well as policy making tool
History
182 pages ; 21 cm
9780761949473, 9780761949480, 076194947X, 0761949488
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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
Translated from the French