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Duff's book would be an excellent companion to an undergraduate or introductory graduate course on information technology [and] would be of interest to most social scientists engaged with the topics of information media and technological change. - Contemporary Sociology Alastair Duff has written an ambitious, exciting and important book. It is a text that deserves to be widely read... - Prof. Jan Nolin, Swedish School of Library and Information Sciencer, University of Boras, in Information Research This is a fascinating, complex, concise and wideranging exploration of what the author labels the 'normative crisis of the information society'. - Richard Lance Keeble, University of Lincoln, in Ethical Space ...a welcome addition on the subject... - Richard D. Taylor, Pennsylvania State University in Journal of Information Policy ...as a piece of academic analysis this is a well-sourced and well-argued study which balances an awareness of continuing debates about the information society, with an impatience to develop a normative approach that can be deployed in the real politics of the information age. - Christopher May, Lancaster University, in European Journal of Communication

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Dr. Alistair Duff is reader in information and journalism at Edinburgh Napier University and a member of its Centre for Social Informatics. With a multidisciplinary background, he has published in a wide range of media on the social role of information. His monograph Information Society Studies was published in 2000 by Routledge.

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