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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... workers , increased interconnectedness , high personal consumption of information , and the proliferation of information technolo- gies — represent responses to demand for information.41 Indeed , the hallmark of the information society ...
... workers sell the labor of their brains . Although nearly everyone agrees on the direction and magnitude of this ... worker . In so doing , we present data indicating that the information workforce grew to a large size much earlier in the ...
... workers . For these new " tele - commuters , " the dis- tinction between work and leisure is problematic . Nevertheless , most infor- mation workers continue to experience the environment of work as distinct from that of the home . For ...
... workers , the drop in num- bers of factory workers , and the proliferation of computer based technologies led numerous social scientists to infer the passing of the industrial era and to describe the information society as post ...
... workers were engaged in the provision of services ; 5 ) A change in the character of work — in post - industrial society , work will primarily be a game against people , human behavior , and facing completely new and unpar- alleled ...
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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