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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... cultural power of the " idea of information , " and brought us into the debate on how to relate information , as a phenomenon , to communication , as a process . Many students involved in communications studies also assisted in our ...
... vocabulary speaking of information as though it were a material thing . Their doing so signals the emergence of a cultural perspective whereby information is thought of as the common essence of concepts as 1 Introduction.
... cultural needs of the emerging class structure of the 18th century converged with the new idea that information could be treated as a thing . The invention of printing constitutes the single most important turn on the road from oral culture ...
... culture and its vestige in the handwritten manuscript.37 As part of the rise of modernity , the philosophy of empiricism and the scientific method also reinforced the tendency to think in discrete parts by breaking the act of inquiry ...
... cultural view , and take them together as the idea of information . Still , it might be pointed out that 18th century philosophes did not recog- nize the introduction of the modern dictionary as part of a new attitude toward information ...
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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