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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... fact , soon after we began , we discovered extensive research be- yond our own fields of communication and information studies . We , there- fore , formulated the tendencies and tensions by bringing together findings from across many ...
... fact that the U. S. economy now exchanges information as its primary commodity . The narrators — journalists and social scientists — trumpet the startling arrival of an information society eclipsing the one engendered by the industrial ...
... fact , information is of such value to us that we buy it , sell it , and enact laws to punish its theft . We are so secure in our attitude that we expect others to share the same assumptions . Furthermore , though information exists ...
... fact , his goal harmonized with those of his patrons , who sensed demand for a dictionary reflecting the notion held by the upper and middle classes — but especially among the middle classes— that they spoke " proper English . " For at ...
... fact , it is the modern tone of this attitude that one is isolated not by geography but by a lack of information , which places the 18th century philosophes closer to the infor- mation society than to the monastery . When manuscripts ...
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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