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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... knowledge . In this atmosphere , reading took on new meaning and books escaped the confines of the medieval armarium . Literacy led to a literary appetite — four - thousand subscribers signed up for the first edition of the Encyclopedic ...
... knowledge and set in motion a true revolu- tion in communication.26 When printing combined with mass production , books became simple com- modities available to large numbers of individuals whose only previous con- tact had been to see ...
... knowledge still relied on memory right up to and beyond the invention of the printing press . However , with the diffusion of printed docu- ments , mnemonics became unnecessary , and the fragile mental structure of rhymes and other ...
... knowledge according to an arbitrary al- phabetic sequence without recognizing that they were imposing upon ideas the qualities of independent things.40 In the book trade , publishers did not see themselves as members of an information ...
... knowledge economy.43 Daniel Bell focused on the post World War II growth of a large service sector and saw the emergence of " Post - Industrial Society . " 44 Following closely in the footsteps of Machlup , Marc Porat described the full ...
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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