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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... mation and produced a literature that sprawls in its lack of consensus . Econo- mists like John Hirshleifer and Donald Lamberton have defined information as consisting of those events which reduce uncertainty in making a decision ...
... mation , reshaped intellectual life.13 Europe of the 18th century represented a cosmopolitan society for the dominant classes and those attached to them . Its participants lived interconnected by books and letters , so that an educated ...
... mation society than to the monastery . When manuscripts were hand - copied , and before printed books were eas- ily available , a climate of scarcity prevailed . Under such circumstances , books were read intensively . Readers consumed ...
... mation society — our increasing interconnectedness at every level . At the mi- cro level , individuals experience numerous personal interactions in their daily lives but can also stay in touch at nearly any 10 Tendencies and Tensions of ...
... mation among institutions , e.g. , banks , credit card companies , stock broker- age houses and diminished differences among them , as institutions from the industrial era transform themselves into new — and increasingly similar — con ...
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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