The impact of the `information society' are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affec

What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, cul

In the first edition of Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster set out to make sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what th

For every opportunity presented by the information age, there is an opening to invade the privacy and threaten the security of the nation, U.S. businesses, and

Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitud