The book provides a compilation of idiosyncratic manifestations of information society in techno-economic, political and cultural spheres. The contributors focus on the increasing complexity within information societies. To manage this complexity, societies develop constantly evolving context-specific modes of meta-governance. The contributions allow a better understanding of well-known conceptualizations and definitions of information society and related concepts such as post-industrial society, post-modernity, as well as network society, and knowledge society.
Perspectives of Information Society – Information Society and Rationality – Path-Dependence and Path-Creation in the Information Society – Networking of Business Elite in the Information Society – Trust and Participation in the Information Society – In
