Noch Fragen? 0800 / 33 82 637

A New Theory of Information & the Internet

Public Sphere meets Protocol

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop languages and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment. This book begins this undertaking. first documents the historical emergence of the scientific, mathematical, computing, and human communication discussions on information, together with the rise of information as a resource and a commodity. It posits that the contemporary situation has not changed in terms of resolving exactly what information might be as a real thing. What has changed is the idea of information as a resource and a commodity, which has become a cultural trope – a standard way of looking at information. In the process of examining the understanding of information and communication, this book investigates the notion of an informed citizenry and the possibilities of a public sphere/s online within the context of the increasingly ubiquitous place of the Internet in social, informational life.weiterlesen

Dieser Artikel gehört zu den folgenden Serien

Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1062-7 / 978-1433110627 / 9781433110627

Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2011

Seiten: 200

Auflage: 1

Reihe herausgegeben von Steve Jones
Autor(en): Mark Balnaves, Michele Willson, Michele A. Willson, Mark Balvanes

39,15 € inkl. MwSt.
kostenloser Versand

lieferbar - Lieferzeit 10-15 Werktage

zurück