Investigating the information society

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• PREFACE = ⅶ
• INTRODUCTION / HUGH MACKAY = 1
• CHAPTER I The information society : continuity or change? / HUGH MACKAY = 7
• 1 The information society discourse = 7
• 2 The information society? = 11
• 3 The information society in four arenas = 12
• 3.1 The home = 12
• 3.2 Work = 14
• 3.3 The military = 16
• 3.4 The state and surveillance = 17
• CHAPTER 2 Theories of the information society / HUGH MACKAY = 21
• 1 Introduction = 21
• 2 Bell's post-industrial society = 22
• 3 Technological determinism = 29
• 4 Castells' 'network society' = 33
• 5 Conclusion = 40
• CHAPTER 3 Social Science and the information society / HUGH MACKAY ; PAUL REYNOLDS = 43
• 1 Making sense of the information society = 43
• 2 What social science research involves = 47
• 3 Social science, research and reflexivity = 51
• CHAPTER 4 Researching the information society : methods and methodologies / HUGH MACKAY ; RAUL REYNOLDS = 53
• 1 Research and its methodological underpinnings = 53
• 2 Methods and methodologies = 54
• 3 Positivist perspective = 55
• 4 Interpretivist perspective = 57
• 5 Triangulation and multiple methods of data collection = 60
• 6 Critical perspective = 61
• 7 Cultural perspective = 64
• CHAPTER 5 Culture, representation and identities / WENDY MAPLES = 67
• 1 Introduction = 67
• 2 Culture, representation and identities = 69
• 3 Signifying practices and textual analysis = 71
• 4 Identity, representation and the web = 78
• 5 Conclusion = 86
• CHAPTER 6 New patterns of work and inequality / HUGH MACKAY = 87
• 1 Introduction = 87
• 2 Bell and after = 88
• 3 Deskilling and the quality of work = 94
• 4 The e-economy = 100
• 5 Winners and losers = 101
• 6 Information exclusion and democracy = 106
• 7 Conclusion = 107
• CHAPTER 7 Time-space reconfiguration / HUGH MACKAY = 109
• 1 Introduction = 109
• 2 Internet communities : an introduction = 112
• 3 Internet communities case study : the Indian usenet = 115
• 4 Satellite television = 117
• 5 Conclusion = 124
• CONCLUSION / HUGH MACKAY = 127
• 1 Social science research = 127
• 2 Understanding technological change = 129
• REFERENCES = 131
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS = 137
• INDEX = 139