Presents a prescriptive theory to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the shape of post-industrial, information-based societies. Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 238 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 366. . 2012. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: A Normative Theory of the Information Society: 13 (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2012
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0415955718
ISBN 13: 9780415955713
Binding: Hardcover
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There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based societies. He argues that information policy needs to become anchored in a left-liberal philosophy which foregrounds a feasible permutation of the core ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood. The information society, if it is to be worth having at all, cannot be allowed to be largely the outcome of the free play of market forces and technological determinism. The social structure, including the information economy, must be subjected to a regulatory axiological system as explicated by some leading proponents of social democracy. This text will be of interest to scholars and students at the cutting edge of information studies, journalism and media, computer science, sociology, politics, philosophy, management and law.

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Dr. Alistair S. Duff is professor of information policy at Edinburgh Napier University. A Normative Theory of the Information Society is a sequel to Information Society Studies (Routledge, 2000).

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