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1. Theories of the Information Society

   4th Edition

   By Frank Webster

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   To Be Published February 27th 2014 by Routledge
2. Theories of the Information Society

   By Frank Webster

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Coping in an era of information flows, of virtual relationships and breakneck change poses challenges to one and all. In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster makes sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the 'Information...

   Published August 10th 2006 by Routledge
3. The Information Society Reader

   Edited by with Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Kaarle Nordenstreng, Ensio Puoskari, Frank Webster, Professor Frank Webster

   Series: Routledge Student Readers

   There has been much debate over the idea of 'the information society'. Some thinkers have argued that information is becoming the key ordering principle in society, whereas others suggest that the rise of information has been overstated. Whatever the case, it cannot be denied that '...

   Published November 26th 2003 by Routledge
4. Environmentalism

   Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Edited by David Pepper, George Revill, Frank Webster

   Series: Critical Concepts in the Environment

   Modern environmentalism is now over fifty years old. This five volume set provides wide-ranging coverage of the state and scope of environmentalism from its science-driven, physical geography-focused roots to its spread to social science and cultural studies. The articles and accompanying...

   Published November 20th 2002 by Routledge
5. Theories of the Information Society

   2nd Edition

   By Professor Frank Webster, Frank Webster

   Popular opinion suggests that information has become a distinguishing feature of the modern world. Where once economies were built on industry and conquest, we are now instead said to be part of a global information economy. In this new and thoroughly revised edition of his popular book, author...

   Published April 17th 2002 by Routledge
6. Culture and Politics in the Information Age

   A New Politics?

   Edited by Frank Webster

   Series: Transnationalism

   This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social...

   Published June 6th 2001 by Routledge
7. Times of the Technoculture

   From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

   By Kevin Robins, Frank Webster

   Series: Comedia

   Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.The authors look at...

   Published May 12th 1999 by Routledge
8. Theories of the Information Society

   By Professor Frank Webster, Frank Webster

   Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster sets out to make sense of the information...

   Published September 27th 1995 by Routledge