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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... behavior , and we weigh the advantages of specific information in our competition with others . In fact , information is of such value to us that we buy it , sell it , and enact laws to punish its theft . We are so secure in our ...
... behaviors similar to our own . Dictionaries , encyclopedias , bureaucratic files , and printing may seem un- remarkable to the 20th century , but to the world of the Enlightenment they represented radical departures from what had gone ...
... behaviors are so deeply embedded in the modern psyche as to be transparent . But to thoughtful individuals of the 17th and 18th centuries , these were radical ideas to be approached with caution . The behavior of reading , for example ...
... behavior , all books with the same con- tent were recognized as containing information of the same value no matter the quality of the paper or binding . We recognize this attitude toward reading because it is our own . Recognition of ...
... Behavioral Science , 10 , 193-237 . Mumford , L. ( 1934/1962 ) . Technics and civili- zation . New York : Harcourt , Brace , and World . Pierce , J. R. ( 1961 ) . Symbols , signals , and noise . New York : Harper and Row . Price , D. J. ...
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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