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crl-15080	Wilson, Patrick	Theories of the Information Society (Book Review)	1996-09-01	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1951	95	55	In Webster's view, the accounts of postindustrial society, postmodernism, and the information city (actually the in- formation mode of development that figures in Castells's theory) support the idea of a new type of society resulting from information developments, where- as others, especially Schiller, Giddens, and Habermas, favor the claim that there has been no sharp break but, rather, de- velopment continuous with the past. The central question in this book by a professor of sociology at Oxford Brookes University is whether the information society in which we now live is a new kind of society, different in character from any previous society, or whether it isba- sically just an informatized version of a familiar old kind of society.	cache/crl-15080.pdf	txt/crl-15080.txt