A New Theory of Information & the Internet: Public Sphere meets Protocol Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Other), Balnaves, Mark (Author), Willson, Michele A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433110628 ISBN-13: 9781433110627 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $45.34 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | System Administration - Storage & Retrieval - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
Dewey: 025.04 |
LCCN: 2011008412 |
Series: Digital Formations (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.8" W x 8.8" (0.65 lbs) 200 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. A New Theory of Information & the Internet 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. |