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The Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares

ISBN: 978-0-7456-4180-5
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248 pages
November 2008, Polity
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Preface 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 253

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