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The Political Economy of Information (Paperback)
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The Political Economy of Information (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Communication and Society
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The ""information society"" is real. Information - as a marketable
commodity - is quickly taking up the powerful role once held by
heavy industry and manufactured products. How this revolution is
affecting society, and how both society and government are
responding to it, is the subject of this book. Every dimension of
social life, whether in the home or the workplace, is affected by
information and the technologies that shape it into a marketable
commodity. Along with the positive aspects of these broad changes,
there are inevitable problems: the growing gap between the
information rich and poor, the need for widespread access to
communication and information technology, the threat to privacy,
and the potential of the technology to create global instabilities.
The editors have enlisted specialists and scholars in business,
communication studies, computing and information science,
economics, law, library science, political science, and sociology
to examine these changes and problems by looking at information
specifically as a commodity. The book begins with chapters on ways
of seeing and thinking about information in the light of
developments in computer communication technology. The ability of
the technology to measure and monitor information transactions and
to package and repackage information products leads to fresh views
on the nature of industrial society, perhaps leading to the
development of what Robins and Webster refer to as ""cybernetic
capitalism"". These theoretical chapters are followed by studies
that identify and examine specific problems in the political
economy of information. These include how business is making
information a marketable commodity, how government is responding to
this development, the implications for access to information,
privacy, social class divisions, and specific impacts on the home
and workplace. The concluding chapters consider the global
significance of transforming information into a marketable product
with specific studies on Europe, Asia, and the efforts of Third
World nations to overcome disparities in the information society.
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