ISBN:
9781847876669
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (315 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Preston, Paschal Reshaping communications
DDC:
303.483
Keywords:
Telecommunication
;
Telecommunication
;
Electronic books
;
Kommunikationstechnik
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Information
;
Gesellschaft
;
Information
;
Multimedia
Abstract:
Thirty years ago, one writer complained that 'to admire technology is all out of fashion'. Today excited claims are made for the impact that these technologies are having on social, political and economic life. But how are we to assess these claims? This book critically interrogates many of the prevailing ideas offers a fresh perspective on this new`digital age'. Reshaping Communications: · Provides an alternative and more grounded account of the complex interplay between new technology and information structures and changes in society · Illuminates the fundamental continuities as well as changes in socioeconomic and political processes · Draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Chapter One: Information Superhighways or Superhypeways: Image of a New Social and Media Order -- Chapter Two: Third-Wave Visions: Technology as Social Transformer -- Chapter Three: An Archaeology of Information (Sector) Matters -- Chapter Four: 'Information Society' Theories -- Chapter Five: Culture and Information: Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere -- Chapter Six: Changes, Continuities and Cycles: Towards a more Realist(ic) Theory -- Chapter Seven: The 'Atoms and Bits' of Informational Capitalism -- Chapter Eight: Polarities: New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes -- Chapter Nine: 'Content is King'?: New Media Innovations and 'Mature' Media -- Chapter Ten: Information as a New Frontier: Commodification and Consumption Stakes -- Chapter Eleven: Beyond Technological Fetishism: Towards a New Social and Media Order Y2K+ -- References -- Index.
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