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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... individuals to see diverse ex- periences , such as a name , a poem , a table of numbers , a novel and a picture , as possessing a common essential feature termed " information . " As people endow " information " with the characteristics ...
... individual's frame of reference . 7 As more social scientists recognize the importance of information to their theories , definitions and descriptions have proliferated — the majority focus- ing on the culturally universal , or ...
... individuals whose only previous con- tact had been to see them or to hear them read . With multiple copies available for comparison , readers no longer accepted interpretations by the authorities . The new polyglot bibles printed after ...
... individuals take for granted . Indeed , the same can be said for the idea that individual humans are the source of knowledge , or that a scientist must first rely on his or her own reason . These three information processing behaviors ...
... individual . 35 However , toward the end of the 18th century , a climate of abundance ap- peared . More titles and ... individuals began to read extensively , finishing one publication while reaching for another.36 Readers were moving ...
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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