Reshaping communications : technology, information and social change /

Reshaping communications : technology, information and social change /

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Author / Creator:Preston, Paschal.
Imprint:London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
Description:viii, 302 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
Technology -- Social aspects.
Information society.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4436825
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ISBN:0803985622
0803985630 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |g 1.  |t Information Superhighways or Superhypeways: Images of a New Social and Media Order --  |t Digital dreams and deliria: all change for a new millennium? --  |t So what's really new?: The 'what' and 'why' of this book --  |t The story: continuities amid change --  |t Other elements of the approach --  |g 2.  |t Third-Wave Visions: Technology as Social Transformer --  |t New ICT and social transformation --  |t From 'new IT' to 'new ICT': archaeology and definitions of key terms --  |t Transformative visions: the 'third-wave' theorists --  |t Hegemonic hype: transformative discourse in the 1990s --  |t A critique of transformative visions --  |t Post-Fordisms and the neo-Schumpeterian model --  |g 3.  |t An Archaeology of Information (Sector) Matters --  |t 'Old wine in new bottles'?: The rise of the information dimension --  |t 'White-Collar': the division of labour and information work --  |t Fritz Machlup: knowledge production and the information sector --  |t Other information sector studies --  |t A contribution to 'socially new knowledge'? --  |t Information-tempered times --  |g 4.  |t 'Information Society' Theories --  |t From information 'sector' to 'society' --  |t Daniel Bell's 'information society' theory --  |t 'The cultural contradictions of capitalism' --  |t A blurred and outdated technocratic vision --  |t The surge of 'information society' policy initiatives in the 1990s --  |t Locating media-based information --  |g 5.  |t Culture and Information: Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere --  |t The 'postmodern temper' in social and cultural realms --  |t Postmodernisms: 'a motley crew of strange bedfellows' --  |t Jean-Francois Lyotard: metanarratives as 'terroristic' --  |t Jean Baudrillard: 'lost in the void of information' --  |t Fredric Jameson: 'the cultural logic of late capitalism' --  |t Jurgen Habermas: modernity as 'incomplete project' --  |t Commodification and the political economy of communication --  |g 6.  |t Changes, Continuities and Cycles: Towards a More Realist(ic) Theory --  |t Crisis and restructuring: changes versus continuities? --  |t Thinking through the technology-society/culture relation --  |t A spectrum of approaches --  |t Technological determinist views --  |t Social shaping approaches --  |t New ICT as a major new technology system: a 'long-waves' approach --  |t The 'socio-technical paradigm' concept --  |t The model in 'the rear-view mirror': the third long-wave era --  |t Implications and some qualifiers --  |g 7.  |t The 'Atoms and Bits' of Informational Capitalism --  |t 'It's the economy stupid!': production, consumption and the rhythms of everyday life' --  |t Gales of creative destruction?: Crisis and restructuring processes --  |t Mass unemployment: the 'exclusions' of enforced leisure --  |t New frontiers?: Mapping informational capitalism --  |t Long-wave dynamics of industrial restructuring, innovation and growth --  |t The 'atoms' and 'bits' of informational capitalism --  |t The 'leading edge': contours of change in the US primary information economy --  |g 8.  |t Polarities: New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes --  |t More material matters: 'information' work, employment practices and labour processes --  |t Polarised consumption: social inequality, consumerism and exclusion --  |t Continuities with older accumulation tendencies --  |t A selective 'hollowing out' of the state and politics: from Keynesianism to neo-liberalism --  |t The seductions of 'the hidden hand': a digital meta-narrative --  |t Some conclusions and implications --  |g 9.  |t 'Content is king'? New media innovations and 'mature' media --  |t When 'content is king': the media and public communication --  |t Technology-centred visions: media explosion, substitution effects and 'convergence' --  |t The fate and future of the 'mature' media --  |t TV+ or beyond the TV age?: Reregulating 'the dominant medium' --  |t The TV industry and its regulation in the USA and EU --  |t Network for a 'new frontier': the shaping and rise of the Internet/WWW --  |t The Internet as new platform for public communication --  |t Connectivity matters: access and use of mature and new ICT facilities --  |t Digital media as transformer: from virtual reality to real virtuality? --  |t Mature media byte back? --  |t A once and future king? Explaining the digital content deficit --  |g 10.  |t Information as new frontier: commodification and consumption stakes --  |t 'New Frontiers' cultural content and informational capitalism --  |t Concentration, globalization and regulation in media-based content industries --  |t Commodification, media and cultural information: specific stakes in a new STP? --  |t Media, content and the neo-liberal 'way to the information society' --  |t A bounded 'new frontier'?: Potential limits to technology and economistic logics --  |t Consumption trends and norms: money-budget and time-budget matters --  |g 11.  |t Beyond technological fetishism: towards a new social and media order @ Y2k+ --  |t Mapping a new millennium: the 'road ahead' in the rear-view mirror --  |t Balancing continuities and changes --  |t How technology matters: links between mature and new infrastructures --  |t Gaps and cracks in the superhighway: the spaces between the promises and the real(ised) --  |t (A space for) social innovations and movements: not quite digital beings --  |t New consumption norms and commodification. 
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