<p>The suffusion of the economy, culture, and society with digitalinterconnectivity is known as the network society. In this innovativebook, Robert Hassan unpacks the dynamics of this newinformation order and shows how media and politics have beenaffected. Drawing on ideas from media theory, cultural studies,and the politics of the newly evolving “networked civil society,”Hassan argues that the network society is shot-through withcontradictions and in a state of deep flux.</p><p>Vital reading for those wishing to understand the networksociety. For undergraduate and postgraduate students ofmedia, politics, and policy, and general reading.</p>