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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin Robins; Frank Webster |
| ISBN: | 0415161150 9780415161152 0415161169 9780415161169 9780203169544 0203169549 |
| OCLC Number: | 40608671 |
| Description: | viii, 318 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: the changing technoscape -- Techno-visions -- A cultural history of Pandaemonium -- Engaging with Luddism -- The hollowing of progress -- Genealogies of information -- The long history of the information revolution -- The cybernetic imagination of capitalism -- Propaganda: the hidden face of information -- The politics of cyberspace -- Cyberwars: the military information revolution -- Education as knowledge and discipline -- Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital -- Living in virtual space -- Prospects of a virtual culture -- The virtual pacification of space. |
| Series Title: | Comedia. |
| Responsibility: | Kevin Robins and Frank Webster. |
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Abstract:
"In a riveting look at today's computer technology, Robins and Webster ask the disturbing question: Is it cyber-revolution-or information capitalism? They trace the information age from the Industrial Revolution to the silicon chip and the Internet. Examining the politics of cyberspace, they show how the military has controlled the development of new technologies and why education plays a central role in government attempts to create a "knowledge society." With broad coverage of current issues, including information policy, technological innovation, education, the military, surveillance, and propaganda, Times of the Technoculture is a thought-provoking revisionist account of Luddite resistance to new technologies." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0649/99020329-d.html.
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- Information technology -- Social aspects.
- Information society.
- Communication and culture.
- Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social.
- Société informatisée.
- Communication et culture.
- Informatietechnologie.
- Informatiemaatschappij.
- Sociale aspecten.
- Culturele aspecten.
- Virtuelle Realität.
- Informationsgesellschaft.

