Carl J. Couch

Information Technologies and Social Orders (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Johns, Mark D.

• Format: PDF

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. Unlike earlier "media" theorists who ignored social context in order to concentrate on the information technologies themselves, Couch implements a consistent theory of interpersonal and intergroup relations to describe the essential interface between information technologies and the social contexts in which they are used.

Couch emphasizes the formative capacities of information technologies across historical epochs and cultures, and places them within the major institutional relations of various societies. He views social orders as reflexively shaped by the information technologies that participants use, and as susceptible to mass brutality and oppression due to oligarchic control though he hopes technology will remain humane.

The original edition of this manuscript was nearly complete at the time of Couch's death and was brought to completion by two of his closest associates. Now after two decades, during which its impact is indisputable, it has been updated for a new generation of students and scholars. Additions include discussions on books in the digital age, social media, mobile telephones, recordings, participatory culture, and more.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351295192
• Artikelnr.: 49264661

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