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PhD Sociology University of Essex
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According to Wikipedia, Frank Webster is a British sociologist. His critical writing on the "information society" has been translated into many languages, widely discussed and criticized. In Theories of the Information Society, he examined six analytically separable conceptions of the information society, arguing that all are suspect, so much so that the idea of an information society cannot be easily sustained.

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Frank Webster 's Published Works

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Theories of the Information Society (2015) (727)
What Information Society? (1994) (399)
Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (1999) (211)
The Postmodern University? Contested Visions of Higher Education in Society (1997) (177)
Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation (2000) (127)
Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present (2000) (123)
Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis (1986) (116)
Advertising the American dream (1987) (103)
The Intensification of surveillance: crime, terrorism and warfare in the information era (2003) (94)
The Information Society Revisited (2002) (93)
Journalists Under Fire: Information War and Journalistic Practices (2006) (91)
The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry (1989) (90)
The Information Society Reader (2004) (85)
INFORMATION, CAPITALISM AND UNCERTAINTY (2000) (80)
Culture and politics in the information age : a new politics? (2005) (62)
The virtual university? : knowledge, markets, and management (2002) (60)
The Intensification of Surveillance (2007) (60)
Theories of the Information Society: Second edition (2002) (53)
`I'll be Watching You': Comment on Sewell and Wilkinson (1993) (48)
Making sense of the information age (2005) (48)
The Technical Fix (1989) (48)
Anti-War Activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age (2008) (39)
Cultural studies and sociology at, and after, the closure of the Birmingham school1 (2004) (36)
Theories of the Information Society (International Library of Sociology) (2006) (29)
Plan and control (1989) (29)
Inequality and Mobilization in The Information Age (2000) (26)
Re-inventing place: Birmingham as an information city? (2001) (26)
Information Warfare in an Age of Globalization (2003) (25)
Knowledgeability and democracy in an information age (1999) (24)
Benchmarking in Geography: Some implications for assessing dissertations in the undergraduate curriculum (2001) (23)
The Anti-War/Peace Movement in Britain and the Conditions of Information War (2006) (23)
Liquid fueled integral rocket/ramjet technology review (1978) (19)
Information and democracy: the weakening of social democracy: Frank Webster (2011) (17)
Athens without slaves… or slaves without Athens?: The neurosis of technology (1988) (16)
Anti-war activism (2008) (12)
Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power. By Bruce Bimber. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Pp. xv+268. $65.00 (cloth); $22.00 (paper). (2004) (12)
Environmentalism : critical concepts (2003) (11)
The iron cage of the information society (1998) (11)
The Long History of the Information Revolution (2003) (10)
Post 9/11 (2008) (10)
Finding space:Women reporters at war (2005) (9)
Respectful Maternity Care (2015) (9)
The postmodern university, research and media studies (2013) (9)
Prospects Of A Virtual Culture (2002) (8)
The Origins of the Information Society (1989) (8)
Conducting ethnography in primary care (2019) (7)
The communications revolution: new media, old problems (1987) (7)
Information and Communications Technologies: Luddism Revisited (1999) (7)
Journalists Under Fire (2006) (6)
Globalization and Information and Communications Technologies: The Case of War (2008) (6)
Information: A sceptical account (2000) (6)
Sociology, Cultural Studies, and Disciplinary Boundaries (2008) (5)
The idea of an information society (2002) (5)
Libraries and librarians in the Information Age (2006) (5)
Understanding the Information Age (2005) (5)
Global Challenges and National Answers (2001) (5)
What are our Universities for (1998) (5)
Information technology: futurism, corporations and the state (1981) (4)
The end of the public library? (2005) (4)
Mass communications and "information technology" (1979) (4)
The Politics of New Technology (1986) (4)
Scales of Activism: New Media and Transnational Connections in Anti-War Movements (2011) (4)
Broadcasting Politics: Communications and Consumption (1986) (4)
Is this the information age (1997) (3)
The Postmodern University? The Loss of Purpose in British Universities (2001) (3)
The Information Environment of War (2008) (3)
A Review of: “Eran Fisher. Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age.” (2011) (2)
The Power of Identity@@@End of Millennium (1998) (2)
Information, urbanism and identity: perspectives on the current work of Manuel Castells (1997) (2)
A REPLY TO DAVID MARSH (2005) (2)
Understanding the Information Age: The Uneasy Relations between Sociology and Cultural Studies in Britain (2005) (2)
From the informational city to the information age (2004) (2)
Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Policy? (2002) (1)
Propaganda: the hidden face of information (2003) (1)
Cyberwars: the military information revolution (2003) (1)
The Media, the Military and Censorship (1986) (1)
Human rights regimes (2002) (1)
Book Review: Equity and Excellence in the Public Library: Why Ignorance is Not Our Heritage by Bob Usherwood 2007, Aldershot: Ashgate, 238pp, £45.00 ISBN 978075462 (2009) (1)
From Marxism, France and the urban question to the city and the grassroots (2004) (1)
THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY : A RESPONSE TO DELANTY (1998) (1)
Islam, Politics and Security in the UK. (2007) (1)
Intellectual self‐mutilation (1985) (1)
Research, Universities and the Knowledge Society (2005) (1)
Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain (2009) (1)
Technology and social problems (2004) (1)
Computer Literacy: The Employment Myths (1989) (1)
Book Reviews : John Feather The information society: a study of continuity and change. 1994, London: Library Association Publishing Ltd, viii, 160 pp, £19.95, ISBN 1 85604 058 5 (1995) (1)
Information history in the modern world: histories of the information age – Edited by Toni Weller (2012) (0)
Capitalism, Information and Democracy (2009) (0)
Book Review: Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (2005) (0)
Education, Utopia and Crisis (1989) (0)
Book Review: Information policy in the electronic age, The impact of information on society: an examination of its nature, value and usage (1999) (0)
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace (2006) (0)
Book reviews: Cass R. Sunstein Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 273 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 518928 5 (2008) (0)
Thinking about Technology (1994) (0)
Book review: (2009) (0)
Education for what Jobs (1989) (0)
Reply to critics (2005) (0)
Book review (2004) (0)
Technology and education: progress or control (1985) (0)
Theory, Theorists and Themes: A User's Guide to Understanding the Present (2000) (0)
Breaking the chain of poverty. (1992) (0)
Information Society: Problems of Formation and Development Prospects (2019) (0)
Review: Dan Schiller, How to Think about Information. Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2007. US$35.00/£21.00. 256 pp (2008) (0)
THE VIRTUAL PACIFICATION OF SPACE (2003) (0)
What's so special about quartz? (1991) (0)
The Technocratic Condition, or Schools Cannot Teach what Society does not know (1989) (0)
Power and Borders (2008) (0)
Recession and Restructuring (1989) (0)
Science, poetry and utopia: Humphrey Jennings' Pandaemonium (1987) (0)
Public Libraries: Virtual Library - False Dawn? (1999) (0)
Information, postmodernism and postmodernity (2002) (0)
Book Review: The Technical Fix: Education, Computers and Industry (1992) (0)
ENGAGING WITH LUDDISM (2003) (0)
Book reviews (1988) (0)
The English Disease (1989) (0)
Information and democracy 1: Jürgen Habermas, the public sphere and public service institutions (2014) (0)
DECONSTRUCTING THE ACADEMY (2003) (0)
Information, restructuring and globalisation (2002) (0)
Reviews (1999) (0)
Corrigendum: Conducting ethnography in primary care (2019) (0)
Communication Practices and Technologies (2008) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
Understanding the Information Domain: The Uneasy Relations between Sociology and Cultural Studies and the Peculiar Absence of History (2017) (0)
Information and postmodernity (2014) (0)
Public service institutions (2002) (0)
Introduction: Information Society Studies (2020) (0)
Teachers and technology (1981) (0)
Durham miners and unionism, 1831 - 1926: a sociological interpretation (1974) (0)
Data Needs In Global Change (1990) (0)
Changing Information Environment (2008) (0)
Science and technology: now and in the future (2012) (0)
Technological Futures and the Technical Fix (1989) (0)
Fordist regime of accumulation, 194573 (2002) (0)
Representation, Beliefs and Identities (2008) (0)
Book Review: Information Age Journalism: Journalism in an International Context (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Beyond the Information Society (2014) (0)
Information, reﬂ exivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens (2007) (0)
Reviews (1997) (0)
Technological determination or demystification (1981) (0)
Warning Signs in Pregnancy and its adaptations (2015) (0)
Experiences of providing psychosocial aftercare services to survivors of human trafficking (2018) (0)
Alliances and Fractures (2019) (0)
Coping with Activism (2008) (0)
The New Disciplines (1989) (0)
Information and democracy 2: Friedrich von Hayek and the neo-Hayekians (2014) (0)
Editorial board (2002) (0)
The Military Project (1989) (0)

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