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"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grafton, Anthony (Editor ), Goeing, Anja-Silvia (Editor ), Duguid, Paul, 1954- (Editor ), Blair, Ann, 1961- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Information science.
Information resources.
Information science > Encyclopedias.
Information resources > History.
Information science > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Premodern regimes and practices
  • Realms of information in the medieval Islamic world
  • Information in early modern East Asia
  • Information in early modern Europe
  • Networks and the making of a connected world in the sixteenth century
  • Records, secretaries, and the European information state, circa 1400-1700
  • Periodicals and the commercialization of information in the early modern era
  • Documents, empire, and capitalism in the nineteenth century
  • Nineteenth-century media technologies
  • Networking : information circles the modern world
  • Publicity, propaganda, and public opinion : from the Titanic to disaster to the Hungarian uprising
  • Communication, computation, and information
  • Search
  • Part two. Alphabetical entries.

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