Promiscuous Knowledge : Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History /

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cmiel, Kenneth (Autor), Peters, John Durham (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Temas:
Communication and culture.
Communication > Philosophy.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
HISTORY / General.
fact.
history.
image and media.
information.
internet.
knowledge.
mass culture.
museum.
photography.
truth.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Warning Horatio
  • 2. Victorian Culture and the Diffusion of Learning
  • 3. The Culture of Happy Summary, 1920-45
  • 4. The Age of the World Picture, 1925-45
  • 5. Delirious Images, 1975-2000
  • 6. Promiscuous Knowledge, 1975-2000
  • Postscript: The Promiscuous Knowledge of Ken Cmiel
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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