Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age: The Production and Distribution of Information in the United StatesTransaction Publishers, 01.01.1995 - 285 Seiten The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that the information age has evolved gradually throughout the twentieth century. National focus on the production and distribution of information stems directly from the organizing principles and realities of the market system, not from a revolution sparked by the invention of the computer. Now available in paperback, Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age, brings together findings from many disciplines, including classical studies, etymology, political sociology, and macroeconomics. This valuable resource will be enjoyed by sociologists, historians, and scholars of communication and information studies. |
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... American Copyright Conven- tions . No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopy , recording , or any information storage and retrieval system ...
... American's fa- miliar terrain . Beyond the domain of the technological , the majority of Americans work in occupations where they manipulate information as the main activity of their work . In their homes , they create electronic ...
... Americans and Europeans . And , its observable presence serves as an identifying badge of the information society . Interest in information , however , extends beyond its utility as a virtual material object . For example , in the ...
... Americans of the 1990s experience a far greater ratio of secondary to primary relationships . At the middle level ... American culture . Individuals construct their private spheres within media environments organized around telephones ...
... American culture because it receives nourishment from an optimistic belief in technological progress . Beyond simple acceptance , some Americans also embrace a second theme that annoints information technol- ogy as an ideal to be ...
Inhalt
21 | |
47 | |
Information Work | 71 |
Media Environments | 103 |
Tensions | 131 |
Technological Visions | 173 |
The Information Society as a State of Mind | 205 |
Appendix A | 229 |
Name Index | 279 |
Subject Index | 283 |
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