Robert Hassan, The Information Society. Cambridge, UK and Maiden, MA

摘要

Adding tags to the term 'society' seems to sum up a great deal while actually saying very little. In the case of the widely used 'information society', all that gets captured is the self-evident notion that information plays an enormous part in later-modern social formations. Robert Hassan aims to move beyond the obvious in his introductory guide. His analytical framework brings together three interdependent processes: neoliberal globalization, information technology and the primary consequence of their combination: time-space compression. Hassan attempts to review and assess the opposing dreamightmare scenarios set out for the information society. In doing so he takes a historical perspective and adopts a political economy approach.