2nd Edition
Information Technologies and Social Orders
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Carl J. Couch
“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
