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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... force . Fur- thermore , our choice of scope meant that the project would also be a work of synthesis , since our questions reached beyond any single study or group of studies . In fact , soon after we began , we discovered extensive ...
... forces of regula- tion . By attempting to create a fixed English , Johnson sought to wrest the language from its common folk roots . In fact , his goal harmonized with those of his patrons , who sensed demand for a dictionary reflecting ...
... forces shap- ing the information society . But whether -philes or -phobes , all Americans find one other meaning in information technology , i.e. , information technol- ogy serves as a powerful metaphor for American civilization . For ...
... forces — the idea of infor- mation , capitalism , and industrialization . They combined to form the infor- mation economy and it , in turn , re - configured work , interconnectedness , daily life , and technology . Notes 1. Shannon ...
... forces driving industrial society — that is , the framework within which change occurs — have given way to a different set of social forces . To argue , for example , that the expansion of the information workforce constitutes ...
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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