Books by Armand Mattelart

This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community.

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

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.

This text offers a history of modern communications that exposes the connection between militarism and the evolution of the media industry.

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.

This introduction to communication theory offers an historical account of the development of all major theoretical approaches by summing up the range of existing theories, and explaining how and why the diverse currents of thought emerged.