Theories of the Information Society, Third Edition - Cryptome

INDEX
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Bimber, Bruce 199
Birmingham 60, 65
Bizet, Georges 240
BlackBerry 11
Blackpool Tower 248
Blair, Tony 75, 85, 196–7, 203,
226
Block, Fred 91
Blockbuster 177
Blue Peter 235
Blumler 200
Blyton, Enid 179
BMW 71
body see image
Bombay 108
Bonanza 131
books see publishing
Booth, Cherie 226
Borders 178
Boulding, Kenneth 27
Boulton, Matthew 29
Boyer, Robert 63
Bradford 60
brands 73, 144, 194, 269
Branson, Richard 196
Braverman, Harry 90–1
Bristol 60
British Aerospace 71
British Broadcasting
Corporation 142, 143, 148,
168, 169–76, 199, 235;
antipathy to 197;
appointments vetted 197;
balance 170; funding 197;
licence fee 169, 172, 173;
recruitment 171; see also radio
and television
British Leyland Corporation
71
British Library Association 176
British Petroleum 70, 128
British Telecom 77, 136, 140–2,
218
Browning 49
Bulgaria 60
Burnham, David 225–6
Bush, George W. 28, 161, 196
business civilisation 268
cable see television
Cable and Wireless 140
call centres 79
Calvin Klein 73
Calvinism see Protestant work
ethic
Cambridge University 117–18,
119, 171, 199, 237
Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament 218
Canada 14
capitalism 120, 121, 156, 204;
aggrandisement of capital
165, 266; collapse of 260;
consumer 52, 152–5, 160,
260; corporate 128, 129, 131,
134–5, 138, 150–2, 160, 194,
264, 266, 267; development
267; disorganised 62;
globalised 69, 119; industrial
212, 265; informational 4,
100–1, 102, 103, 106–8,
113–14, 119–21, 125, 267–8;
monopoly 260; restructuring
102, 119; state and 166;
techno-capitalism 127;
triumph of 270, 271; volatility
118–19
Cardiff, David 170
cars: manufacturing 70–1, 129;
ownership 67
Castells, Manuel 15, 93, 98–123,
263, 265, 272; capitalism and
99; capitalist mode of
production 119–21; collective
identities 109–11; and
communism 99; concept of
information 121, 123; critics
of 115–16; disposable theory
100; dominant managerial
elites 108; empiricism 100;
fourth world 113; generic
labour 111, 113, 114; holistic
99; ICT 122; information
flows 100, 123; information
war 109; informational
capitalism 100–1, 102, 106–8,
113–14, 120, 121;
informational labour 111, 112,
113–14, 115, 116, 117,
118–19, 119, 122;
informational mode of
development 4, 7, 22, 102,
119–21, 122; informationalism
122; instant wars 109, 214;
interactive society 106;
Internet 106; and McLuhan
105–6; merit 117; network
society 4, 101–3, 103–5, 106,
108, 109, 110, 120–1, 122,
123; new economy 101; new
society 100, 101; new times
112; post-Marxist 99; real
virtuality 107–8; space of
flows 108; space of places
108; spirit of informationalism
105; timeless time 108;
urbanisation 98–9
categorical care 222
categorical exposure 226
categorical seduction 226
categorical suspicion 218
causation theory 47
celebrity, cult of 154, 226
censorship 191, 215
census 205
Certeau, Michel de 241–2
change see continuity/change
Channel 4 94, 158, 171, 172,
189
Chartered Institute of Library
and Information Professionals
176
checkouts 205
Chernobyl 233
childcare 157, 269
China 95, 132, 258; communism
1, 60, 162; low-cost labour
103; markets 1, 60, 69;
peasant society 269; US spy
plane 132
Christie, Agatha 143, 179
Cisco 104, 141
Citicorp 72
cities 98–9, 108, 110, 209
Citigroup 70
citizenship 212, 221–2, 227, 251,
266; decline of civic
involvement 162
Clancy, Tom 158
Clark, Colin 40
class: capitalist 113; inequalities
123, 128, 146–50; new 16–17;
politics 111; propertied
118–19; struggle 232; working
class 87, 112–14, 168
Clearing House Interbank
Payments System 72
Clinton, Bill 83, 203, 226
clothes 19–20, 66, 205, 228,
229, 270; decline of
dressmaking 269; and of
knitting 269; see also image:
body
Coates, Tim 179
Cobbett, William 158
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