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Reshaping Communications

Name: Reshaping Communications
Author: Paschal Preston

Technology, Information and Social Change

Paschal Preston,

320 pages
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Reshaping Communications

Technology, Information and Social Change

Paschal Preston,

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About This Book

`It is a clich [ac]e but this book is timely, welcome and indeed a breath of fresh air....It is of particular value for people concerned with public communications, political economy, economics and the relationship between society and technology. Moreover, this book powerfully dispels the tacit assumption, prevalent in business, politics, media and academia that a combination of technical fixes and the free market can right all social problems? - Irish Journal of Sociology

Thirty years ago, one writer complained that ?to admire technology is all out of fashion?. Today excited claims are made for the impact that these technologies are having on social, political and economic life. But how are we to assess these claims? This book critically interrogates many of the prevailing ideas offers a fresh perspective on this new`digital age?.

Reshaping Communications:

· Provides an alternative and more grounded account of the complex interplay between new technology and information structures and changes in society

· Illuminates the fundamental continuities as well as changes in socioeconomic and political processes

· Draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and original empirical research.

The book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the new communication technologies, including students of media and communications as well as policy-makers.

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Publisher

SAGE Publications Ltd

Year

2001

ISBN

9781847876669

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Communication Studies

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Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Contents
Chapter One: Information Superhighways or Superhypeways: Image of a New Social and Media Order
Chapter Two: Third-Wave Visions: Technology as Social Transformer
Chapter Three: An Archaeology of Information (Sector) Matters
Chapter Four: 'Information Society' Theories
Chapter Five: Culture and Information: Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere
Chapter Six: Changes, Continuities and Cycles: Towards a more Realist(ic) Theory
Chapter Seven: The 'Atoms and Bits' of Informational Capitalism
Chapter Eight: Polarities: New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes
Chapter Nine: 'Content is King'?: New Media Innovations and 'Mature' Media
Chapter Ten: Information as a New Frontier: Commodification and Consumption Stakes
Chapter Eleven: Beyond Technological Fetishism: Towards a New Social and Media Order @Y2K+
References
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