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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... corporations , developing along the same lines experi- enced in non - informational industries . Moreover , this trend does not result from the computer revolution . Instead , the information society operates within the " long ...
... corporate research laboratories , each one aimed at securing a market advantage.45 Beyond the invention of information devices , the desire for greater profits has also encouraged entrepreneurs to exploit the media's power to urge con ...
... corporate structures are the result of industrialization . Industrialization , Management , and the Information Economy Industrialization is the path that capitalism took in the United States , where entrepreneurs brought capital ...
... Corporate growth created a crisis of control , whose solution was found in the development of a system of supervision . Not surprisingly , railroads , where the crisis first surfaced , con- tributed the first solutions . At the New York ...
... corporate bureaucracies that exist today . Once adopted , administrative management required two commitments from managers . First , they needed to believe in the superiority of rational decision making over intuitive decision making ...
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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