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Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age

Author : Jorge Reina Schement
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351306022
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age written by Jorge Reina Schement and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age

Author : Jorge Reina Schement
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age written by Jorge Reina Schement and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All the Facts

Author : James W. Cortada
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190460695
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book All the Facts written by James W. Cortada and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Facts presents a history of the role of information in the United States since 1870, when the nation began a nearly 150-year period of economic prosperity and technological and scientific transformations. James Cortada argues that citizens and their institutions used information extensively as tools to augment their work and private lives and that they used facts to help shape how the nation evolved during these fourteen decades. He argues that information's role has long been a critical component of the work, play, culture, and values of this nation, and no more so than during the twentieth century when its function in society expanded dramatically. While elements of this story have been examined by thousands of scholars---such as the role of radio, newspapers, books, computers, and the Internet, about such institutions as education, big business, expanded roles of governments from town administration to the state house, from agriculture to the services and information industries---All the Facts looks at all of these elements holistically, providing a deeper insight into the way the United States evolved over time. An introduction and 11 chapters describe what this information ecosystem looked like, how it evolved, and how it was used. For another vast layer of information about this subject the reader is directed to the detailed bibliographic essay in the back of this book. It includes a narrative history, case studies in the form of sidebars, and stories illustrating key points. Readers will find, for example, the story of how the US postal system helped create today's information society, along with everything from books and newspapers to TV, computers, and the Internet. The build-up to what many today call the Information Age took a long time to achieve and continues to build momentum. The implications for the world, and not just for the United States, are as profound as any mega-trend one could identify in the history of humankind. All the Facts presents this development thoroughly in an easy-to-digest format that any lover of history, technology, or the history of information and business will enjoy.

Managing Records as Evidence and Information

Author : Richard J. Cox
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313000719
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Managing Records as Evidence and Information written by Richard J. Cox and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past three decades, policies regarding a variety of information issues have emanated from federal agencies, legislative chambers, and corporate boardrooms. Despite the focus on information policy, it is still a relatively new concept and one only now beginning to be studied. The subject area is wider than believed—archives and records policies, information resources management, information technology, telecommunications, international communications, privacy and confidentiality, computer regulation and crime, intellectual property, and information systems and dissemination. This is not a compendium of policies to be used, but rather an exploration in a more detailed fashion of the fundamental principles supporting the setting of records policies. Records policies are critically important for records professionals to develop and use as a means of strategically managing the information and evidence found in the millions of records created daily, provided that the policies are based on comprehensible principles. This is a series of discourses on the fundamentals of archives and records management needing to be understood before any organization attempts to define and set any policy affecting records and information. The chapters concern defining records, how information technology plays into policy compiling, the fundamental tasks of identifying and maintaining records as critical to records and information policy, public outreach and advocacy as a key objective for such policy, and the role of educating records professionals in supporting sensible records policies.

Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age

Author : Gerald Sussman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780803951402
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Communication, Technology, and Politics in the Information Age written by Gerald Sussman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1997-09-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerald Sussman offers a detailed critical analysis of the political dimensions of 21st century communication/information technologies, mass media and transnational networks.

Democracy in the Digital Age

Author : Anthony G. Wilhelm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960763
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Democracy in the Digital Age written by Anthony G. Wilhelm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Social History of the Media

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074569943X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of the Media written by Asa Briggs and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-07-26 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two leading social and cultural historians, the first two editions of A Social History of the Media became classic textbooks, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. This third edition has been thoroughly revised to bring the text up to date with the very latest developments in the field. Increased space is given to the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the globalization of media. Additionally, new and important research is incorporated into the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication. Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. In an age of fast-paced media developments, a thorough understanding of media history is more important than ever, and this text will continue to be the first choice for students and scholars across the world.

Understanding Information History

Author : William Aspray
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031441346
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Information History written by William Aspray and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Microhistory is a technique that has been used effectively by writers of both fiction and nonfiction. It enables the author to cut through the complexities of large swaths of history by focusing on a particular time and place. Microhistories are particularly useful in historical study when a subfield has recently arisen and there are not yet enough monographic studies from which to draw general patterns. This microhistory focuses on a single year (1920) across the United States, with the goal of understanding the various roles of information in this society. It gives greater emphasis to the informational aspects of traditional historical topics such as farming, government bureaucracy, the Spanish flu pandemic, and Prohibition; and it gives greater attention to information-rich topics such as libraries and museums, schools and colleges, the financial services and office machinery industries, scientific research institutions, and management consultancies.

. . . And Communications for All

Author : Amit M. Schejter
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739134833
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book . . . And Communications for All written by Amit M. Schejter and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-02-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In . . . And Communications for All, 16 leading communications policy scholars present a comprehensive telecommunications policy agenda for the new federal administration. This agenda emphasizes the potential of information technologies to improve democratic discourse, social responsibility, and the quality of life along with the means by which it can be made available to all Americans. Schejter has assembled an analysis of the reasons for the failure of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and offers an international benchmark for the future of telecommunications. Addressing a range of topics, including network neutrality, rural connectivity, media ownership, minority ownership, spectrum policy, universal broadband policy, and media for children, it articulates a comprehensive vision for the United States as a twenty-first-century information society that is both internally inclusive and globally competitive.

A Private Sphere

Author : Zizi A. Papacharissi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745658997
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Private Sphere written by Zizi A. Papacharissi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online technologies excite the public imagination with narratives of democratization. The Internet is a political medium, borne of democracy, but is it democratizing? Late modern democracies are characterized by civic apathy, public skepticism, disillusionment with politics, and general disinterest in conventional political process. And yet, public interest in blogging, online news, net-based activism, collaborative news filtering, and online networking reveal an electorate that is not disinterested, but rather, fatigued with political conventions of the mainstream. This book examines how online digital media shape and are shaped by contemporary democracies, by addressing the following issues: How do online technologies remake how we function as citizens in contemporary democracies? What happens to our understanding of public and private as digitalized democracies converge technologies, spaces and practices? How do citizens of today understand and practice their civic responsibilities, and how do they compare to citizens of the past? How do discourses of globalization, commercialization and convergence inform audience/producer, citizen/consumer, personal/political, public/private roles individuals must take on? Are resulting political behaviors atomized or collective? Is there a public sphere anymore, and if not, what model of civic engagement expresses current tendencies and tensions best? Students and scholars of media studies, political science, and critical theory will find this to be a fresh engagement with some of the most important questions facing democracies today.

SOFSEM '97: Theory and Practice of Informatics

Author : Frantisek Plasil
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540637745
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book SOFSEM '97: Theory and Practice of Informatics written by Frantisek Plasil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1997-11-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th Seminar on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics, SOFSEM'97, held in Milovy, Czech Republic, in November 1997. SOFSEM is special in being a mix of a winter school, an international conference, and an advanced workshop meeting the demand for ongoing education in the area of computer science. The volume presents 22 invited contributions by leading experts together with 24 revised contributed papers selected from 63 submissions. The invited presentations are organized in topical sections on foundations, distributed and parallel computing, software engineering and methodology, and databases and information systems.

The New Media Theory Reader

Author : Hassan, Robert
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN 13 : 0335217109
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The New Media Theory Reader written by Hassan, Robert and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of new media opens up some of the most fascinating issues in contemporary culture, bringing together key readings on new media, what it is, where it came from, how it affects our lives, and how it is managed. It encourages readers to pay attention to the 'new' in new media, as well as consider it as a historical phenomenon.

The Information Age

Author : James D. Torr
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Information Age written by James D. Torr and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has transformed the way people work, play, and communicate. The many questions raised by new information technologies are explored in the following chapters: Will the Information Highway Benefit Society? How Should the Information Highway Be Developed? How Should the Government Regulate E-Commerce? Should Computer Content Be Regulated?

The Information Age

Author : David Stephen Alberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Information Age written by David Stephen Alberts and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Information Age: An Anthology on Its Impacts and Consequences was originally prepared by The Center for Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies of the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University. The original four volumes have been combined into one volume for this printing. They are: Part One: The Information and Communication Revolution Part Two: Business, Commerce, and Services Part Three: Government and the Military Part Four: International Affairs

Living in the Information Age

Author : E. Page Bucy
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Living in the Information Age written by E. Page Bucy and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIVING IN THE INFORMATION AGE traces the development, surveys the literature, and explores the impact of new technologies on the media landscape, examining both conceptual and practical aspects of life in an information society. The 64 articles comprising this reader examine the utopian promises of technology's true believers, and the dystopian views of technology's critics, all the while exploring how the media industries are being transformed through digital convergence and corporate concentration

Media Power, Media Politics

Author : Mark J. Rozell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742511583
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Media Power, Media Politics written by Mark J. Rozell and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the role and influence of the media in every sphere of American politics. Organized thematically, the book analyzes the relationship between the media and key institutions, political actors and nongovernmental entities, as well as the role of the new media, media ethics and foreign policy coverage. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters serve as broad overviews to the issues while discussion questions and suggestions for further reading encourage deeper inquiry. Designed to complement a wide variety of classes the book is a look at the pervasive influence of the media in American society.

Conflicts, Disputes, and Tensions Between Identity Groups

Author : Josué M. González
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617352470
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Conflicts, Disputes, and Tensions Between Identity Groups written by Josué M. González and published by IAP. This book was released on 2009-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended for use in professional courses of study and workshops in fields such as education administration, public administration, sports administration, law enforcement, allied health and social work, human resource management, and other fields in which groups from diverse backgrounds participate as employees, students, or clients. The book is an introduction to a vast and complex subject. Among the possible objectives that can be pursued with the aid of this book are the following: • To understand the nature and causes of intergroup conflict including the useful functions it performs for communities and members of identity groups. • To understand the importance of a historical perspective in the study of intergroup conflict and the danger of adopting ahistorical solutions. • To learn how group membership influences interactions between and among groups under conditions of stress. • To understand the causes and persistence of ethnocentric thought and how individuals can minimize or prevent the demonizing effects that may arise from it. • To become familiar with basic principles of conflict resolution, mediation, and arbitration. • To become aware of how the seemingly harmless and benign beliefs and actions of one group may have negative effects on others who do not belong to the same group. • To explore approaches to dealing with intergroup conflict and the conditions under which these approaches are either useful or inappropriate.