In this new and thoroughly revised edition the author brings his work right up to date both with new theoretical work and with social and technological changes - such as the rapid growth of the internet and accelerated globalization - and re-assesses the work of key theorists in light of these changes. This book will be essential reading for students of contemporary social theo...(展开全部)

弗兰克·韦伯斯特（Frank Webster）国际著名社会学家，现任伦敦大学社会学系系主任，其研究聚焦于信息与传播，以及高科技对图书馆、城市变迁的影响。《信息社会理论》(第三版)作为其经典的代表性成果，影响广泛。最近几年以来，他致力于通过检视反战运动如何采用信息传播新科技来洞察网络行动主义，并联合凯文·吉莉安和詹尼·皮克林撰写了《反战行动主义：信息时代的新媒体与抵制》。韦伯斯特的若干论著探索了信息科技与当代社会的变化趋势，他反对把信息社会视为彻底改变了的新社会形态，始终秉持此时的信息社会不过是既有资本主义的延续与强化，信息资本主义就是公司资本主义的发展而已。

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)

'The first edition of this book brought difficult questions about selfhood together with equally awkward issues of power and the 'social'. Not since Mead or Goffman, perhaps, had this been attempted in such a useful way, and in such an assured and accessible text. This completely reworked second edition retains all of these virtues, and takes the original analysis into new terr...(展开全部)

In a riveting look at today's computer technology, Robins and Webster ask the disturbing question: Is it cyber-revolution-or information capitalism? They trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet. Examining the politics of cyberspace, they show how the military has controlled the development of new technologies and why educati...(展开全部)

In a riveting look at today's computer technology, Robins and Webster ask the disturbing question: Is it cyber-revolution-or information capitalism? They trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet. Examining the politics of cyberspace, they show how the military has controlled the development of new technologies and why educati...(展开全部)

TheodoreRoszak