CONTENTS
Contributors = ⅶ
Introduction = xiii
Part 1 The information society : fact or fiction? = 1
1 Theoretical perspectives on the information society / John Feather = 3
2 The information society : a secular view / Alistair Black = 18
3 World gone wrong? Alternative conceptions of the information society / Dave Muddiman = 42
Part 2 The information society and daily life = 61
4 Policy push, personal pull : trying to make sense of the journey towards the information society / Chris Batt = 63
5 Information literacy and the information society / J. Stephen Town = 83
6 Imaginative communities : turning information technology to expressive use in community groups / Ian Beeson = 104
Part 3 The information society and policy = 129
7 Information policy : complexity, scope and normative structure / Ian Rowlands = 131
8 Knowledge management in government / Margaret Haines ; Paul Dunn = 147
Part 4 The information society and the information professional = 167
9 Freedom versus protection : the same coin or different currencies? / Graham P. Cornish = 169
10 Watching what happens to information about people : data protection / J. Eric Davies = 184
11 Electronic publishing : what difference does it make? / Claire Warwick = 200
12 The role of the professional in the information society / Peter Brophy = 217
Index = 233
