A society built on information storage, retrieval, and transmission, time–space compression, post-Fordism, flexible accumulation, and the advance of finance capital, which is characterized by networking, globalization, and the flexibility, individuality, and instability of work. ‘Information technologies, both as a process and product, contain embedded social knowledge, and thus represent the construction of new social norms and institutions’ (Eischen (2001) U. Calif., Santa Cruz, W. Paper Series 1009). ‘The information society can be usefully characterized as a universe at the intersection of three distinct but interdependent spaces: the geographical space, the social space, and the informational space’ (Ekbia and Shurman, Information Society, special issue). See F. Webster (2007) on the work of key theorists of the information society in light of social and technological changes, such as the rapid growth of the Internet and accelerated globalization.