Theories of the Information Society, Third Edition - Cryptome

INDEX
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Poster, Mark 228, 265, 266, 272;
modes of information 21, 22,
250, 255; netizen 251;
postmodernism 7; symbolic
exchange 250–1; tri-partite
history 258
post-Fordism 4, 5 62, 63, 64, 69,
76–83, 89, 90, 96, 104, 127,
261, 264; critique of 85–9;
see also Fordism and
neo-Fordism
post-industrial service society
46–50
post-industrial society 4, 6, 7,
14, 22, 62, 86, 120, 121, 124,
127, 203, 266, 272; defined
38–41; unsustainable 36;
untenable 35
Postman, Neil 195
postmodernism/postmodernity
6, 7, 27, 127, 159, 229–31,
266; information and 242–3;
key elements 228, 231–3, 242;
neo-conservative 259;
postmodern condition
259–62; postmodern
imagination 107–8; social
characteristics 233–42
post-traditional society 57, 206,
207
pre-industrialism 121
presentation 161, 247
presentism 267
Presley, Elvis 239
press, the 126, 146, 244, 250;
advertising 166; digital
journals 145; free sheets 61,
150, 154, 191; magazines 19,
61; tabloids 143, 189, 226
pressure groups 253
printing 249
privatisation 139, 173
Proctor & Gamble 88
producer services 53
production, flexible 80, 261
productivity 39
professionals 38, 42, 43, 46, 52,
53, 54, 116–17
propaganda 190–1, 218
property 118–19
Prospect 34
Protestant work ethic 38, 85, 94,
105
Public Interest, The 34
public libraries see libraries
public opinion 215
public relations 20, 161, 165,
167, 168, 190, 191, 195, 196,
197, 246
public service institutions 140,
166, 169–89, 199;
broadcasting 148, 149, 166,
169–89; cuts in funding 142,
143
publicity departments 192
publishing 19, 61, 244;
blockbusters 166; digital 145,
269; pamphlets 61; paperback
revolution 158, 177, 179;
penny dreadfuls 159; pulp
fiction 150, 158, 181; see also
copyright and intellectual
property
Putnam, Robert 153
qualifications 42, 117
Quayle, Dan 107
Quotron 137
Racine, Jean 243
racism 211
radio 19, 61, 146, 154, 169–79,
244, 249, 250; phone-ins 199;
talk shows 200
rationalisation 39, 40, 44–5, 204
Rayner, Sir Derek 188
Reagan, Ronald 77, 196
Real Madrid 144
recession 96
Red Cross 219
Reece, Gordon 196
reflexive accumulation 92
reflexive modernisation 4, 7, 30,
203, 206, 227, 271, 272
reflexivity 92, 203–27
regularisation of daily life 6
Regulation School theory 60–97,
63–5, 266
Reich, Robert 15, 83–5;
enterprise networks 84; global
web 83; symbolic analysts 84,
93, 97, 113
Reith, Lord 170, 172
research and development 12,
13, 44, 53, 56, 136, 253, 259
resistance movements 110
Reuters 133
Rheingold, Howard 106
rioting 60–1
risk assessment 207
Robins, Kevin: enclosure 269;
flexible transnational
corporations 89
robots see automation
Rolls-Royce 66
Rooney, Wayne 240
roots 236
Roszak, Theodore 23–4, 25, 26,
273
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 205
Rover 71
Royal Dutch Shell 70, 88, 128,
270
Royal Statistical Society 187
Russia: communism 1; First
World War 213; peasant
society 269; post-Soviet 118;
wild capitalism 100; see also
Soviet Union
Saatchi & Saatchi Advertising
196
Sabel, Charles 7, 63, 89–90, 272
Sabel, Michael 95
Saddam Hussein 161, 257
Saint-Simon, Henri 44, 115
sanitation 205
satellites: communication 18,
61, 72, 151; spy 214, 217–18,
223; television 9, 19, 106,
131, 148, 149, 173, 175; US
domination 133
Saudi Arabia 212
Saunders, Peter 159
Scannell, Paddy 170
Schiller, Anita 128
Schiller, Dan 129–30
Schiller, Herbert 4, 5, 103,
124–60, 162, 245, 252, 258,
262, 264, 266, 271; class
inequalities 128, 146–50;
commodification 128, 143–6;
consumer capitalism 152–5,
160; corporate capitalism 128,
129, 131, 135, 150–2, 160,
264, 266; Critical Theory 125,
127, 128, 135, 136, 265;
cultural imperialism 134;
garbage information 149, 156,
158, 190; holistic 126;
information imperialism 134;
information networks 129–30;
information stratification 147;
key elements 127–9; market
criteria 127–8, 135–43, 156;
311