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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... appears to signal the final extinction of the era of coal and steel ; however , the new social out- line is actually a synthesis of traditional and new — the dialectic between steel and silicon , factory work and office work , railroads ...
... appears that the idea of information — and communication — contains util- ity as a concept for a broad spectrum of researchers . But , though information fascinates many social , biological , and physical scientists , no interdiscipli ...
... appears that printers initiated the popularization of al- phabetization when they exploited the advantage of the alphabet as a fixed series , in order to increase the speed of arranging type . " In turn , alphabetiza- tion heightened ...
... appears as a buzz word . They find no evidence that historically significant social relationships , such as the class struggle , have disappeared . In addition , they challenged the claim that information may replace capital as a ...
... appear today in the " new " information industries , in virtually all of the same recognizable forms . The logic of the post - industrial point of view , therefore , rests on a tenuous foundation . If the logic of post - industrialism ...
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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