The Pay-Per Society
Computers & Communication in the Information Age
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920059760
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $38.95
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Description
The Pay-Per Society addressess the significance of a growing information society, and provides a critical approach to understanding the impact of merging computer/communication systems on work, home-life and other social institutions. This important book by one of North America's leading experts in the field of Communication Studies calls into question utopian views of a post-industrial society.
About the author
Vincent Mosco is Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University and the author of The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal.