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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... example , passing laws to prevent information theft and constructing systems to deposit or retrieve in- formation . In the 20th century , Americans led the way toward articulating a vocabulary speaking of information as though it were a ...
... example , in the sciences , information began to show up as a concept in the middle of the 20th century . In 1949 , Claude Shannon sought to explain the transmission of a message from one point to another in his mathematical theory of ...
... example , information continues to be thought of as the reduction of uncer- tainty , so that no consensus has yet emerged . Among the " hard " sciences , unanimity is equally elusive . Cellular biologists describe DNA as a " library ...
... examples of information treated as a thing and of the prolif- eration of information processing behaviors similar to ... example , reestablished the arbitrary se- quencing of words . It appears that printers initiated the popularization ...
... of literature . 22 Indeed , alphabetization served more than one purpose , for Johnson and his milieu were evolving a view of words as things , with consequences for behav- ior in the material world . For example , during Introduction 5.
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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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