Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Information and the Idea of the Postmodern 3. The Information Society as Post-Industrialism: David Bell 4. Information, the Nation State and Surveillence: Anthony Giddens 5. Information and Advanced Capitalism: Herbert Schiller 6. Information Management and Manipulation: Jurgen Habermas and the Decline of the Public Sphere 7. Information and Restructuring: beyond Fordism? 8. Information and Post-Modernism 9. Information and Urban Change: Manuel Castells 10. Conclusion Bibliography