Theories of the Information Society

activities advertising Anthony Giddens argue argument audiences authentic Baudrillard Bell’s Britain British capitalist Castells Castells’s cent central century communications concept concern consequences contemporary continued corporate capitalism critics culture Daniel Bell economic emergence emphasis employment epoch especially example flexible specialisation Fordist Giddens global globalisation growth Habermas Habermas’s Herbert Schiller ICTs identify important increased increasingly industrial information age information domain information society informational capitalism informational labour innovation insist instance intellectual interests Ju¨rgen Lyotard major Manuel Castells manufacture Marxist means modern modernist museums nation network society nowadays occupations one’s operation organisation particular people’s political post-Fordism post-Fordist post-industrial society postmodern principle production programming public service broadcasting public sphere radical realm Regulation School role signs social spread suggest surveillance telecommunications television theoretical knowledge theorists theory thinkers tion today’s transnational trends truth workers