Competing Visions, Complex Realities : Social Aspects of the Information Society Hardback
by Jorge Reina Schement, Leah Lievrouw
Hardback
Description
This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States.
Each contributor focuses on a specific and significant social aspect of the information-oriented society.
Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; analyzing information work in the health care industry; defining information in an information-oriented society; the evolution of the concept of information in the courts; the coporatization and privatization of information in the economy; information and the restructuring of the family environment; information in the rural sector; the emergence of Silicon Valley; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:01/01/1987
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- ISBN:9780893914028
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication Date:01/01/1987
- Category:
- ISBN:9780893914028