The information society refers to a constellation of
developments arising from the growing use of communication
technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of
information, and the role of information in supporting the creation
and exchange of knowledge. Research on information societies really
began to take off in the 1970s when Daniel Bell wrote about the
information age . While there were earlier works that focused on
the growing importance of information in the economy, it was not
until the mid-1990s and the spread of the Internet that this field
of study experienced a huge expansion across a broad range of
disciplines in the social sciences and beyond. A critical mass of
scholarship has now accumulated, establishing the information
society and information societies as a terrain of substance and
complexity, the exploration and understanding of which requires
increasingly sophisticated navigation skills. As research in and
around the area continues to flourish as never before, this new
title in Routledge 's Major Works series, Critical Concepts in
Sociology, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to
make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of
literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and
developed over the last thirty years or so.
The Information Society is fully indexed and has a comprehensive
introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the
material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an
essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by
scholars and students as well as policy-makers and practitioners in
the field as a vital one-stop research resource.
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