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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... analysis of large scale phenomena , such as the idea of information , interconnectedness , and the information work force . Fur- thermore , our choice of scope meant that the project would also be a work of synthesis , since our ...
... analysis whose main theme is that the information society emerged gradually through- out the 20th century . We contend that the national orientation to the produc- tion and consumption of information which many Americans observe today ...
... analysis , printed works , such as Diderot's Encyclopedic and Johnson's dictionary , overwhelmed handwrit- ten manuscripts by offering information in a portable , condensed , and versa- tile package . Perhaps unwieldy by present ...
... analysis , to interpretation , to theory — be treated as a distinct activity . In addition , the newly developing practice of science placed a premium on communication , so that scientific reports came to emphasize , as they still do ...
... analysis of the pictures in our heads . 46 But explanations of the development of society in terms of infor- mation and communication date roughly from Boorstin's The Image , and McLuhan's ideas on media and the global village.47 Not ...
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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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