A survey of the changes in the advertising industry in the last 20 years including coverage of the emergence of international conglomerates and the diversification of the agencies into public relations and media buying.

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.

Video surveillance, public records, fingerprints, hidden microphones, RFID chips: in contemporary societies the intrusive techniques of surveillance used in daily life have increased dramatically.

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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.