Reshaping communications : technology, information and social change /

Reshaping communications : technology, information and social change /

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Author / Creator:Preston, Paschal.
Imprint:London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001.
Description:1 online resource (viii, 302 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Information technology -- Social aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Telecommunication -- Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11185040
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ISBN:9781847876669
1847876668
0803985622
9780803985629
0803985630
9780803985636
9781446222164
1446222160
1281251518
9781281251510
1446235629
9781446235621
9786611251512
6611251510
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This interdisciplinary book overviews political and cultural identity in the context of changes across the political landscape. These changes - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the recent Islamic revival - have profoundly altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world. In this context the author draws together the diverse strands of literature to throw light on the impact on identity of a changing global environment. Peter Preston analyzes political, cultural and economic identities which lie at the centre of individual actions and social structure. This anal.
Other form:Print version: Preston, Paschal. Reshaping communications. London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2001 0803985622 9780803985629
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Introduction and Overview
  • Information Superhighways or Super-Hypeways
  • Part 2. Competing Theories of The Contemporary
  • Third Wave Visions
  • Technology as Social Transformer
  • An Archeology of Imformation (Sector) Matters
  • 'Information Society' Theories
  • Culture and Information
  • Postmodernisms and the Public Sphere
  • Part 3. Mapping a New Millennium and Multimedia Order
  • Changes, Continuities and Cycles
  • Towards a More Realist(ic) Theory
  • The 'Atoms and Bits' of Informational Capitalism
  • Polarities
  • New Modes of Work, Consumption and State Regimes
  • 'Content Is King'?
  • New Media and 'Mature' Media Innovations
  • Information as New Frontier
  • Commofication and Consumption Stakes
  • Part 4. Alternative Prospects and Possibilities
  • Beyond Technological Fetishism
  • Towards a New Social and Media Order @Y2K+

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