Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
The 'new' ICTs environment in Europe: closing or widening the gaps?
Telematics and Informatics - Special issue: Regulating the internet: EU and US perspectives
E-commerce and human resource management: theortical approaches and issues for the banking industry
Seeking sucess in E-business
The social contract revised: obligation and responsibility in the information society
Current security management & Ethical issues of information technology
Cultural contradictions of the anytime, anywhere economy: reframing communication technology
Telematics and Informatics - Special issue: Electronic markets in post euphoric phase
Information society revisited: from vision to reality
Journal of Information Science
Basic-needs to globalization: Are ICTs the missing link?
Information Technology for Development
The rise and decline of a visionary policy: Swedish ICT-policy in retrospect
Information Polity
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Digital divide in social networking sites
International Journal of Mobile Communications
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From the Publisher:This book sets out to examine and assess the variety of theories of information in society currently available. Frank Webster sceptically examines what thinkers mean by an information society, and looks closely at different approaches to informational developments. He provides critical commentaries on the major postwar theories: Daniel Bell's ideas on a post-industrial information society, Anthony Giddens' thoughts on the growth of surveillance and the expansion of the nation state, Herbert Schiller's insistence that information both expresses and consolidates the interests of corporate capitalism: Jurgen Habermas' account of the diminishment of the public sphere; Jean Baudrillard's thoughts on postmodernism and information, and Manuel Castells' depiction of the 'informational city'. Each theorisation is subjected to close scrutiny and is tested against empirical evidence to assess its worth. The author concludes that, while there has undoubtedly been an information explosion, it is premature to conceive of an information society. We should rather emphasise the 'informatisation' of established relations.