Carl J. Couch

Information Technologies and Social Orders

Herausgeber: Johns, Mark D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

According to Carl J. Couch, the history of human society is one of successive, sometimes overlapping, information technologies used to process the various symbolic representations that inform social contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781412865098
• ISBN-10: 1412865093
• Artikelnr.: 47176170

Autorenporträt

Carl J. Couch

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Information and Action: An Introduction to Carl Couch's Analysis of Information Technologies
1. Introduction
2. Orality
3. Decorations and Depictions
4. Extending Temporal Structures
5. Numeric and Spatial Concepts
6. Bureaucratic Structures
7. Written Languages
8. Printing Books
9. Newspapers and State Structures
10. Telecommunications: Overcoming Space
11. Recorded Sounds and Sights
12. Broadcasting Sounds and Sights
13. Information-Processing Machines
14. Knowledge Centers
15. Oh
What Webs Those Phantoms Spin
References
About the Author
About the Editor
Index

Rezensionen

"Information is so central to modern societies that the primary knowledge centers, i.e., universities, 'compete with state and economic structures for hegemony in programming the future endeavors of humanity.' Through his emphasis on the social context, Couch has brought an important balance to the study of information technologies."

-M. Oromaner, Choice