Times of the Technoculture

Name: Times of the Technoculture
Author: Kevin Robins

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

Gebonden Engels 1999 1e druk 9780415161152

182,76

In winkelwagen

Verwachte levertijd ongeveer 11 werkdagen

Samenvatting

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.