Contents // Preface and acknowledgements x // 1 Introduction 1 // 2 Definitions 10 // 3 Quality 24 // 4 Post-industrial society: Daniel Bell 38 // 5 Regulation School 68 // 6 Network society: Manuel Castells 106 // 7 Mobilities 137 // 8 Information and the market system: Herbert Schiller 149 // 9 Information and democracy 1: Jürgen Habermas, the public sphere and public service institutions 196 // 10 Information and democracy 2: Friedrich von Hayek and the neo-Hayekians 251 // 11 Information, reflexivity and surveillance: Anthony Giddens 277 // 12 Information and postmodernity 306 // 13 Beyond the Information Society 340 // Bibliography 358 // Index 396