Competing Visions, Complex Realities - Social Aspects of the Information Society

This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Each contributor focuses on a specific and significant social aspect of the information-oriented society. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; analyzing information work in the health care industry; defining information in an information-oriented society; the evolution of the concept of information in the courts; the coporatization and privatization of information in the economy; information and the restructuring of the family environment; information in the rural sector; the emergence of Silicon Valley; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.

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• Authors: Leah Lievrouw, Lievrouw Leah, Jorge Reina Schement, Schement Jorge Reina
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1987
• EAN: 9780893914028
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-402-8
• Subjects: Guides; Business & Economics / General, Business and Management, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Business & management, Communication Studies, Business: Business Communications