| A New Theory of Information & the Internet: Public Sphere Meets Protocol Contributor(s): Jones, Steve (Editor), Balnaves, Mark (Author), Willson, Michele A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433110636 ISBN-13: 9781433110634 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $157.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 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 (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 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. |