ISBN:
9781538148549
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 320 pages
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cortada, James W Building blocks of modern society
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Information technology History
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information technology Economic aspects
;
Informationstechnik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Wirtschaft
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Information history as a research topic -- How to understand information ecosystems and infrastructures in firms and industries -- Studying history as it unfolds: computing's history, 1970-2017 -- The information ecosystems of national diplomacy: Spain, 1815-1936 -- Information ecosystems of American homemakers in Madison county, Virginia, 1950-1995 -- International sales information ecosystems: IBM, 1920s-1980s -- How people and organizations learned about information: computer science and their users, 1945-1975 -- Tiny information ecosystems and infrastructures: genealogists and family historians -- The case for information ecosystems and infrastructures and lessons learned.
Abstract:
"This book proposes a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value for this kind of research, second, through a range of case studies applying those concepts"--
Note:
Includes index
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