1. Introduction -- 2. Definitions -- 3. Quality -- 4. Post-industrial society : Daniel Bell -- 5. Regulation school -- 6. Network society : Manuel Castells -- 7. Mobilities -- 8. Information and the market system : Herbert Schiller -- 9. Information and democracy 1 : Jurgen Habernas, the public sphere and public service institutions -- 10. Information and democracy 2 : Friedrich von Hayek and the neo-Hayekians -- 11. Information, reflexivity and surveillance : Anthony Giddens -- 12. Information and postmodernity -- 13. Beyond the Information Society.