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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... mass production , books became simple com- modities available to large numbers of 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 ...
... mass production and distribution at the end of the 18th century , each leaf of a book was printed separately by artisan printers who set type by hand and then impressed the plate onto paper that was hand - produced sheet by sheet.34 In ...
... mass media but also alluded to the tension between integration and fragmentation . A more recent group of theories clus- ters around Bell's description of post - industrial society.48 These explanations generally accept Bell's premises ...
... masses of information poor watched over by Big Brother . Meehan disagrees with the excessive negativism of Schiller and Mosco , but she accepts their view of unmodified capitalism . She , therefore , predicts that life in a future ...
... mass media , and it encouraged their proliferation in the 20th century . In step with demand for information goods as final products , advertising ac- celerated the momentum of the information economy , up from 25 % of the 1967 GNP to ...
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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