Frank Webster (sociologist)
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Frank Webster (born 27 September 1950) is a British sociologist. His critical writing on the "information society" has been translated into many languages, widely discussed [1] and criticized.[2] In Theories of the Information Society,[3] he examined six analytically separable conceptions of the information society, arguing that all are suspect, so much so that the idea of an information society cannot be easily sustained.
Frank Webster comes from New Coundon (locally referred to as Coundon Station), a mining village in Durham, England where he was raised and educated. He graduated from Durham University in 1974 with a degree in sociology.[4] He completed his studies at the London School of Economics and has worked in several universities, at home and abroad. He joined City full-time in 2003 from the University of Birmingham. He served as Head of the Department of Sociology at City University London from 2008 to 2012 and retired in 2013.[5]
