The Information Society

Critically, Mattelart asks why the notion has come to be dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the information society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualized as a theoretical concept as well as a policy making tool.

Introduction The Cult of Numbers Managing the Industrial and Scientific Age The Emergence of Computers Post-industrial Scenarios The Metamorphoses of Public Policy The Geopolitical Stakes of the Global Information Society