Are there any academic works focusing on the current Information Age as a historical era?

by kdadi

If someone could point me in the right direction, that would be awesome!

Cosmic_Charlie

Yes. Many.

Start with Lou Galambos' seminal piece, "The Emerging Organizational Synthesis in Modern American History" This article describes (among other things) a trend/change in historiography to see historical change as driven by organizations/institutions rather than individual actors. As you might imagine, this was a contentious topic. To many in the social historical 'school,' this was quite a shot across the bow. The article is one of the many roots of the 'agency wars' of the 80s and 90s, where historians argued ad nauseum about who/what drove historical change.

Then go to Tuomi's Networks of Innovation More-or-less foundational to the topic you describe.

Then go to Manuel Castell's The Rise of the Network Society It's a fantastic book. BOMK, still the best treatment.

Then start wandering through footnotes. There's a ton of stuff out there on networks and information as drivers for all sorts of things.