This paper examines the range of ways that science fiction literature, film, and television programming have portrayed aspects of concept of the information society. It introduces both science fiction and the information society using contemporary scholarship. It goes on to examine aspects of the information society along political, economic, and cultural axes and then explores treatments in relevant works. The paper concludes that the science fiction genre has much to offer scholars and students of information society studies, and it proposes the incorporation of science fiction into information science curriculum and canon as a narrative parallel to standard non-narrative scholarship
