Information Economy/Society

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Culture Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression
Schiller, Herbert I.
Book
1989
Schiller defends democratic expression and free access to information while demonstrating the ways in which public expression, public space, and public access to information are becoming increasingly ...
Progress Without People: In Defense of Luddhism
Noble, David F.
Book
1995
This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
Public Disinterest: Information Commons Dismantled
Morris, David
Article
2010
Seventy-five years after the Federal Radio Commission declared there was no room on the public airwaves for “propaganda stations” and denied a license renewal to a station that attacked Jews and law e...
Review: Cyber-Marx - Aufheben
Article
2006
Aufheben critically review Nick Dyer-Witheford's Cyber-Marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism and its basis in the flawed theories of Antonio Negri.

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Social Investment Organization
Working to re-direct capital to socially beneficial economic activity.

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Doing & Saying the Right thing
Bonner, Allan
2004
Professional risk and crisis management.
Information Society
Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
A society in which the creation, distribution, diffusion, use, integration and manipulation of information is a significant economic, political, and cultural activity.
Science for Peace Opposes Cancellation of the Long-Form Census
Sources News Release
2010
The decision to cancel the long-form census represents an attack on evidence-based research and is undemocratic. Science for Peace urges the government to reverse the decision.