Times of the Technoculture - From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

Informationen zum Autor Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: the changing technoscape PART I Techno-visions 1 A cultural history of Pandaemonium 2 Engaging with Luddism 3 The hollowing of progress PART II Genealogies of information 4 The long history of the information revolution 5 The cybernetic imagination of capitalism 6 Propaganda: the hidden face of information PART III The politics of cyberspace 7 Cyberwars: the military information revolution 8 Education as knowledge and discipline 9 Deconstructing the academy: the new production of human capital PART IV Living in virtual space 10 Prospects of a virtual culture 11 The virtual pacification of space

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Kevin Robins, Kevin Webster Robins, Robins Kevin, Frank Webster, Webster Frank
• Edition: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 13.05.1999
• EAN: 9780415161169
• ISBN: 978-0-415-16116-9
• Pages: 328
• Thèmes: Comedia; Comedia
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Politique, société, économie > Société; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Autres; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Informatique, ordinateurs > Général, dictionnaires; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Autres; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Ethical & social aspects of IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects