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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... humans and to a degree exists subjectively , as part of the individual's frame of reference . 7 As more social scientists recognize the importance of information to their theories , definitions and descriptions have proliferated — the ...
... humans conceive of information as a thing to the exclusion of other formulations . Humans ob- viously process ... human knowledge . In this atmosphere , reading took on new meaning and books escaped the confines of the medieval ...
... human memory , the scarcity of hand - copied books meant that the transmission of knowledge still relied on memory ... humans are the source of knowledge , or that a scientist must first rely on his or her own reason . These three ...
... human communication to 186,000 miles per sec- ond , a spiral of technological development continues to diminish the obstacles of distance and time , resulting in unprecedented interconnectedness — and consequences — for the earth's ...
... human use of human beings : Cybernetics and society . New York : Avon Books ( pp . 26-27 , 31 ) . 3. Hayes , R. M. ( 1969 ) . Education in information science . American Documenta- tion , 20 , 362-365 . 4. Some theoretical perspectives ...
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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