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This paper is a contribution to understanding the ways that information technologies have been theorised in relation to social change. Beginning with a discussion of the early ‘information society’ thesis, I outline a major critique of these positions, arguing that they fail to account for the transformation in the nature of information in modernity. The paper then goes on to outline approaches which position information as central to transformation and argue that the chief axis of tension in relation to information is not the development of consensus and control of public opinion but the control of resources. |
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| Cavanagh, Allison. and Dennis, Alex. "The Expropriation of Communication: Information and the Social in the Information Society" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-05-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182166_index.html> |
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| Cavanagh, A. and Dennis, A. , 2007-08-11 "The Expropriation of Communication: Information and the Social in the Information Society" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2009-05-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p182166_index.html |
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Abstract: This paper is a contribution to understanding the ways that information technologies have been theorised in relation to social change. Beginning with a discussion of the early ‘information society’ thesis, I outline a major critique of these positions, arguing that they fail to account for the transformation in the nature of information in modernity. The paper then goes on to outline approaches which position information as central to transformation and argue that the chief axis of tension in relation to information is not the development of consensus and control of public opinion but the control of resources. |
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| THE EXPROPRIATION OF COMMUNICATION: INFORMATION AND THE SOCIAL IN THE INFORMATION SOCIETY It is a common trope of science fiction that a new future can only be imagined either on the basis of a radical discontinuity with the past; whether this figures as a social revolution political dictatorship Armageddon or a new ice age; or on the basis of extrapolation from current technological trajectories. As sociologists we face similar constraints in imagining new futures. In sociologies of the future |
| (ed.) Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance New York: Arnold Stallman Richard Gay Joshua (ed.) Lawrence Lessig (2002) Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman Boston: Free Software Foundation Sunstein Cass (2001) Republic.com Oxford: Princeton University Press Terranova Titsiana (2004) Network Culture: Politics for the Information Age London: Pluto Toffler Alvin (1980) The Third Wave New York: Bantam/ Morrow Webster Frank and Robins Kevin (1986) Information technology: A Luddite Analysis New Jersey: Ablex Publishing Wilhelm |
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