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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... created no academy comparable to that of France . Instead , guided by the spirit of capitalism , a group of London booksellers approached Samuel Johnson with the idea of producing a national dictionary . Johnson replied with a Plan for ...
... reader processed information . For one thing , the growing abundance of printed works led to a decrease in reliance on memory . For though the invention of writing created the 6 Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age.
... created the potential for tran- scending human memory , the scarcity of hand - copied books meant that the transmission of knowledge still relied on memory right up to and beyond the invention of the printing press . However , with the ...
... created fertile ground for a great deal of fruitful speculating and theorizing . Yet any comprehensive explanation of the information society must first resolve whether the emergence of the information society constitutes a revolution ...
... creation of a new intellectual technology— experts can now exploit computers to make use of mathematical techniques to ... created from within the service sector , possibly even preventing class formation among the new technocrats ; 9 ...
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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