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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Hassan (University of Melbourne)Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.399kg ISBN: 9780745641805ISBN 10: 0745641806 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 26 September 2008 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface vii 1 The Information Society Today: The Acceleration of Just About Everything 1 2 The Coming of the Information Society 32 3 Information Takes Over 75 4 A Shrinking Planet 109 5 Commodification and Culture in the Information Society 135 6 Faster and Faster 159 7 Who Rules?: Politics and Control in the Information Society 190 Glossary 224 References 237 Index 253ReviewsRobert Hassan provides here an accessible and valuable review of the information society, with his own forceful argument for the role of neo-liberalism in shaping this accelerating and volatile world in which we must live. Frank Webster, City University of London Robert Hassan has successfully updated the stale notion of information society. From the perspective of Internet culture Hassan takes apart the self-evident information technology hype. Instead of leading us further down into cold, sociological formulas, The Information Society engages in contemporary debates around the network effect. Hassan singles out two processes: commodification and acceleration. The critical contribution centres around the speed illusion of today's network society, culminating in the often heard question: how do you deal with chronic distraction? Geert Lovink, University of Amsterdam “Robert Hassan provides here an accessible and valuable review of the information society, with his own forceful argument for the role of neo-liberalism in shaping this accelerating and volatile world in which we must live.” Frank Webster, City University of London “Robert Hassan has successfully updated the stale notion of information society. From the perspective of Internet culture Hassan takes apart the self-evident information technology hype. Instead of leading us further down into cold, sociological formulas, The Information Society engages in contemporary debates around the network effect. Hassan singles out two processes: commodification and acceleration. The critical contribution centres around the speed illusion of today's network society, culminating in the often heard question: how do you deal with chronic distraction?” Geert Lovink, University of Amsterdam Author InformationRobert Hassan is Senior Researcher in Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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