Theories of the Information Society, Third Edition - Cryptome

INDEX
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205; ratings 259; reality
153–4, 200, 226; round-theclock
175; satellite 9, 19, 106,
131, 148, 149, 173, 175; Sinn
Fein banned 197; soap opera
73, 107, 131, 133, 137, 148,
150, 174, 200, 245;
sponsorship 148, 174, 194;
sport 131, 148–9, 174;
subscription 154, 174; timeswitching
158; US 133, 258;
see also British Broadcasting
Corporation and video
terrorism 217, 220; Bali 218;
London 3, 218; Madrid 218;
New York 61, 216–17, 218;
Washington, DC 216–17, 218
Texaco 128
text communications 10
Thatcher, Margaret 64–5, 140,
178, 188, 189, 196, 197
theoretical knowledge 9, 28–31,
35, 53–8, 59 271, 272
think tanks 253
Third World 47, 134, 232
Thorn-EMI 135
Thurow, Lester 84
time flexibility 80
Times, The 199
Times Higher Education
Supplement, The 144–5
Times Literary Supplement, The
144–5
Titanic (film) 73
Toffler, Alvin 9, 35, 272;
cognitariat 113; knowledge
society 113
Tokyo 108
total quality practices 90
Touraine, Alain 111–12
tourism 237–8, 239, 249
Toyota 71; five zeros 104
Tracey, Michael 174
trade unions 64–5, 66, 77, 116,
165, 218
trade-ins 194
tradition 109, 230, 261; ‘great
tradition’ 230, 234, 239–40
transfer pricing 151
transnational corporations
69–70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78,
89, 97, 103–4, 130, 265, 269;
empire 129–35
transport 79, 205
‘trickle down’ theory 141
truth: postmodernism and
255–6, 260
TRW 137
Tumber, Howard 190
Turing, Alan 54–5
Turow, Joseph 155
Uganda 103
Ukraine 60, 258
uncertainty 207
Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics see Soviet Union
United Kingdom: civil servants
163; Department of Health
218; devolution 212; General
Strike (1926) 170;
Government Statistical
Services 187; information
society 2; Internet 10, 124;
Jews 220; Labour Party 85–6,
165, 197, 218 , (New Labour)
83, 203; Ministry of Defence
215; news 132; Office of
National Statistics 189;
Parliament 163–5; Police
National Computer 218;
Special Branch 218;
Stationery Office 187, 188
United Nations 214, 227;
International Criminal
Tribunal, The Hague 219
United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organisation 134
United Nations International
Children’s Emergency Fund
219
United Press International 133
United States of America:
broadcasting 169; China
grounds spy plane 132; Civil
War 24–5; Constitution 161;
Declaration of Independence
24; decline in ‘social capital’
153; Disneyland 248;
engineering 151;
entertainment 133; expansion
and dispersal of business 130;
films 133; GDP 72; GNP 13;
Haiti 132; ideological
domination 132; information
society 2; inner-city ghettoes
100, 113; Internet 10, 124;
Library of Congress 18;
military resources 214, 215;
music business 133; National
Defense University 216; news
distribution 132; Patriots 110;
Presidential election (2004)
161; public service
broadcasting 174; rustbelt to
sunbelt 81; science policy
138–9; service sector 14;
social structure 36; Somalia
132; technological superiority
133; telecommunications 74;
television 133; trade unions
77; triumph 268; values and
world view 132; Vietnam 198;
workforce 46–7
universities 114–15, 117–18,
157, 166, 252–5; corporate
involvement 192, 194, 195;
qualifications 42, 117
urbanisation 98–9, 244
Urry, John 63, 92–3, 260–1;
disorganised capitalism 62;
global citizens 219
Useem, Michael 193
Usherwood, Bob 180–1
value system, common 38
Vattimo, Gianni 249–50, 251,
255, 257, 258, 266
Venturi 235
Verdi, Giuseppe 240
vertical disintegration 77–9, 83
video 61, 135, 136, 150, 153,
158, 175, 228, 249
Vietnam 198
villages 209
Virgin 73, 144
Virilio, Paul: dromology 241;
postmodernism 7
virtual community 106
virtual reality 2, 5, 257
virtual relations 3
W. H. Smith 158
wage flexibility 80
Walkman 19
Wal-Mart 225
war: cyberwar 215; friendly fire
217; industrial 214–17, 227;
information 109, 214–17,
221, 227; instant 109; nation
state and 212, 213, 221;
pre-programmed 216;
see also news
Washington, George 28
313