Too often the history of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is wrenched out
of the history of technology and presented as something altogether separate and therefore …

In this article the author attempts to assess both the analytical and evaluativeclaims of
the'information society'thesis. There are two different viewsregarding the speed and extent of …

The information society model claims that the new information hegemony is transforming
industrial society. But is it not the case that the major change has to do with the increasingly …

Proposes three phases in the emergence of an information society. Identifies these as the
previously dominant industrial society, the capitalist system, the Cold War and the emerging …

Do we live in an era of change or in a changing era? How can one characterize the deep
transformations that come with the accelerated insertion of artificial intelligence and new …

The information society is not so new, or so significant, as we may think. In this book, we
explore the idea of an information society before the information society that is today defined …

“Information society” is a term used to describe the most recent stage of social history. In the
20th century the most developed countries gradually “entered” the state of information …

This paper offers an analysis and critique of recent thought about the 'information society'. It
identifies two phases of futurism, the first a technological enthusiasm that characterised the …

Although there always have been critical and skeptical voices in the (academic) debates on
the emergence of a radically “new” information society (Schement & Lievrouw, 1987; …

The term “information” has become a universal and omnipresent keyword in almost all areas
of our modern world—be it in science or society in general. This is not only obvious from the …