Alistair S. Duff

Information Society Studies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We are often told that we are "living in an information society" or that we are "information workers." But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified? In this important methodological study, Alistair S. Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the "information society thesis." Wide-ranging in coverage, this study will be of interest to scholars in information science, communication and media studies and social theory. It is a key text for the newly-unified specialism of information society studies, and an indispensable guide to the future of this discipline.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 495g
• ISBN-13: 9780415215510
• ISBN-10: 041521551X
• Artikelnr.: 21113400

Autorenporträt

Alistair S. Duff is a Senior Lecturer and Teaching Fellow in the School of Creative Industries at Napier University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction. 2. The information sector version of the information
society thesis. 3. The information flows version of the information society
thesis. 4. The information technology version of the information society
thesis 5. Synthetic methodology of the information society thesis 6.
Overall conclusions. Coda: An agenda for information Society Studies.
Appendix 1: Database searches. Appendix 2: Telephone interview with Youichi
Ito. Appendix 3: Periodicals carrying articles on the information society
between 1984 and 1997.