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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... century . We contend that the national orientation to the produc- tion and consumption of information which many Americans observe today stems directly from the organizing principles of industrialization , and the re- alities of ...
... century , we take it for granted that libraries , clocks , spying , and plagiarism , all have to do with information . We think in terms of information as an influence on our behavior , and we weigh the advantages of specific ...
... century represented a cosmopolitan society for the dominant classes and those attached to them . Its participants lived interconnected by books and letters , so that an educated person could aspire to participate in the whole of human ...
... century , intellectuals accepted the notion that words could be stolen like any physical possession , and adapted the word " plagiary " ( from the Latin for kid- napper or abductor ) to describe this novel act of theft.23 Consequently ...
... centuries , these were radical ideas to be approached with caution . The behavior of reading , for example , evolved a new form in the course of the 18th century , as a result of the diffusion of printed books.30 Members of the Republic ...
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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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