Theories of the Information Society, Third Edition - Cryptome

INDEX
High Wycombe 60
higher education see universities
high-value production and
services 84
Hillyard, Paddy 222
Himanen, Pekka 85, 105
Hirschhorn, Larry 7, 91, 93, 95
Hirst, Paul 91
historicism 36
Hitachi 75, 152
Hobsbawm, Eric J. 29, 60, 123
Honda 71
horizontal corporation 104, 111
hospitality 195
HSBC 194
Human Genome Project 29, 55
human rights 218–20, 227
Humphries 134
Hutton, Will 72, 76, 179
hyper-reality 20, 248
I Love Lucy 133
IBM 70, 75, 77, 88, 129, 136,
151, 152, 253
identity 109–11
identity cards 218, 223
iMac 268
image 19–20; body 228, 247–8;
corporate 124, 191, 192;
management 190
immigration 189
Impressionism 229–30
inauthenticity 245
Independent, The 257
Independent Broadcasting
Authority 171
Independent Television 171,
173, 200
India 132
Indiana Jones and the Last
Crusade (film) 73
individualism, new 82
individuation/individuality
207–8, 222
Indonesia 95
Industrial Revolution 9, 11, 29,
59, 60, 123
industrial society 11
industrialisation 44
industrialism 45, 46, 120, 121,
204
information: bits 26, 27, 28, 56,
107; commodification 14, 128,
143–6, 157, 199, 252, 266,
269, 270; declining integrity 4;
defined 25–8, 273; experts 22;
flows 18, 74, 97, 100, 123,
151, 214, 216, 219, 271; gap
149; imperialism 134;
infrastructure 74; management
168, 190–8; manipulated 161;
modes of 21, 22, 250, 255;
networks 17, 129–30;
packaging 161, 190; rich/poor
147, 157; stratification 147;
tradable 271
information and
communications technology
3, 11, 12, 15, 22, 29, 61, 72,
79, 83, 88, 92, 94, 100, 102,
271; cultural effects 107;
defence and 228; global
business and 151; global
corporation effectiveness and
105; home 136; merging
9–10; social movements and
110; technical knowledge for
116; virtuoso 151; see also
Internet
information society: cultural
19–21; defined 8–21;
economic 12–14; flawed
concept 263; knowledge
society 28; occupational
14–17; post-industrial society
32; qualtitative/quantitative
indices 14, 16, 21–5; spatial
17–18; technological 9–12
information superhighway see
Internet
information technology 2
Information Technology
Advisory Panel 180
informational mode of
development 4, 7, 22, 84,
102, 119–21, 122
informational trends 263,
264
informationalism 122
informatisation 6, 135, 203,
273, 265, 266
Inland Revenue 218, 222
integrated services digital
network 18
Intel 141
intellectual property 144–5,
269; see also copyright and
patenting
intellectual thought 42, 254;
undermining of 6
interactivity 3
internal pacification 221
international information
highways 74
Internet 19, 32, 61, 136, 153,
217, 244, 250; availability
199; blogging 5, 157, 250;
bulletin boards 200; chat
rooms 157, 200; civic
involvement and 162;
community and 107, 157;
datamining 155; free
downloads 157; information
exchange 10, 17, 199;
information superhighway 3,
10; library access 18; netizen
251; online communities 3;
online relationships 107;
online shopping 155; quality
of information 137; software
146; spread 10, 106, 124, 145;
wireless connection 10
iPod 11, 19, 159
Iraq see Gulf War, Second
Ironbridge 238
Islamic fundamentalists 110
Israel 212
Italy 68, 90
ITT 129
J. Walter Thompson 194
Jackson, Michael 172
Jaeger 234
Jailhouse Rock (film) 239
James, Henry 234
Jameson, Fredric 229, 260
Januszczak, Waldemar 185
Japan 68, 103; Aum Shinrikyo
110; information society 2;
Joho Shakai 10; Ministry of
Posts and Telecommunications
10; service sector 14; social
structure 36
Jenkin, Patrick 78
Jews 236; Holocaust 220, 233;
UK 220
jobless growth 77
joint-stock corporations 118
Jordan 212
Jorvik Centre, York 238
Joyce, James 230
junk mail 19, 124, 150, 191
Jurassic Park (film) 73
just-in-time (JIT) systems 80,
90
308