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The information society : an introduction / Armand Mattelart ; translated by Susan G. Taponier and James A. Cohen.
- Title
- The information society : an introduction / Armand Mattelart ; translated by Susan G. Taponier and James A. Cohen.
- Author
- Mattelart, Armand
- Publication
- London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2003.
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- Description
- 182 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Histoire de la société de l'information. English
- Alternative Title
- Histoire de la société de l'information.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History (form)
- Note
- Translation of Histoire de la société de l'information.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-175) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 076194947X
- 0761949488 (pbk.)
- OCLC
- 52391229
- SCSB-9949688
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library