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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... structures . " Still others , like Brenda Dervin in communication stud- ies , have objected to the treatment of information as though it were a phenomenon occurring independently in the natural world . Information , she asserts , is ...
... structure of the 18th century converged with the new idea that information could be treated as a thing . The invention of printing constitutes the single most important turn on the road from oral culture to the idea of information . In ...
... structure of rhymes and other memory aids gave way.29 Information could now be retrieved from among one's books , which were stored on the shelf like any other mate- rial thing . Concurrently , new forms for presenting information ...
... structure . Thus , the new scientific method emphasized the components of the disci- pline of investigation so as to maximize rigor and minimize subjective bias . The method dictated that each step of the way — from research question ...
... structures of government . Supporters of pri- vate enterprise argue that only the market can guarantee maximum efficiency in the delivery of information . Supporters of publicly shared information re- spond that government is the only ...
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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