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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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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Blair, Ann, 1961- (Editor), Duguid, Paul, 1954- (Editor), Goeing, Anja-Silvia (Editor), Grafton, Anthony (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Information science > History.
Information resources > History.
Information science > Encyclopedias.
Sources d'information > Histoire.
Sciences de l'information > Encyclopédies.
HISTORY / Reference
Information resources.
Information science.
Anatoly Detwyler.
Bruce Rusk.
Christopher Nigent.
East Asia.
Eric Hayot.
European information state.
Information Keywords.
Jack Chen.
Khipu.
Literary Information in China.
Michele Kennerly.
Xiao Liu.
accounting.
album.
algorithm.
appraising.
archaeological decipherment.
archives.
archivists.
art of memory.
bells.
bibliography.
book history.
book sales catalogues.
books.
bureaucracy.
cameras.
cards.
censorship.
coins and medals.
commodification.
commonplacing.
communication.
computation.
computers.
cybernetics.
data.
databases.
decrypting.
diagrams.
digitization.
diplomats and spies.
disinformation.
document.
documentary authority.
drums.
early modern Europe.
encrypting.
error.
ethnography.
excerpting.
feedback.
files.
forecasting.
forgery.
forms.
globalization.
governance.
government documents.
history.
horoscope.
indexing.
information genres.
information networks.
information policy.
information practices.
information.
inscriptions.
intellectual property.
intelligence testing.
inventories.
journals.
knowledge.
landscape and cities.
layout and script in letters.
learning.
legal aspects.
letterpress.
letters.
libraries.
lists.
lithography.
manuscript.
media technologies.
media.
medical and legal cases.
medieval Islamic world.
misinformation.
networks.
news.
periodicals.
premodern regimes and practices.
printing.
propaganda.
public opinion.
publicity.
records.
search.
secretaries.
technology and society.
Encyclopedias.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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