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Tables of Contents for Investigating the Information Society
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Introduction
1
6
Hugh Mackay
The information society: continuity or change?
7
14
Hugh Mackay
The information society discourse
7
4
The information society?
11
1
The information society in four arenas
12
9
The home
12
2
Work
14
2
The military
16
1
The state and surveillance
17
4
Theories of the information society
21
22
Hugh Mackay
Introduction
21
1
Bell's post-industrial society
22
7
Technological determinism
29
4
Castells' 'network society'
33
7
Conclusion
40
3
Social Science and the information society
43
10
Hugh Mackay
Paul Reynolds
Making sense of the information society
43
4
What social science research involves
47
4
Social science, research and reflexivity
51
2
Researching the information society: methods and methodologies
53
14
Hugh Mackay
Paul Reynolds
Research and its methodological underpinnings
53
1
Methods and methodologies
54
1
Positivist perspective
55
2
Interpretivist perspective
57
3
Triangulation and multiple methods of data collection
60
1
Critical perspective
61
3
Cultural perspective
64
3
Culture, representation and identities
67
20
Wendy Maples
Introduction
67
2
Culture, representation and identities
69
2
Signifying practices and textual analysis
71
7
Identity, representation and the web
78
8
Conclusion
86
1
New patterns of work and inequality
87
22
Hugh Mackay
Introduction
87
1
Bell and after
88
6
Deskilling and the quality of work
94
6
The e-economy
100
1
Winners and losers
101
5
Information exclusion and democracy
106
1
Conclusion
107
2
Time-space reconfiguration
109
18
Hugh Mackay
Introduction
109
3
Internet communities: an introduction
112
3
Internet communities case study: the Indian usenet
115
2
Satellite television
117
7
Conclusion
124
3
CONCLUSION
127
4
Hugh Mackay
Social science research
127
2
Understanding technological change
129
2
References
131
6
Acknowledgements
137
2
Index
139