Download or read book The Information Society written by Armand Mattelart and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change. He also asks why the notion has come to be dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced.