The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital NightmaresISBN: 978-0-7456-4180-5
Paperback
248 pages
November 2008, Polity
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“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
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