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Informationen zum Autor R. David Lankes is a professor and the director of the University of South Carolina's School of Library and Information Science. Lankes has always been interested in combining theory and practice to create active research projects that make a difference. His work has been funded by organizations such as The MacArthur Foundation, The Institute for Library and Museum Services, NASA, The U.S. Department of Education, The U.S. Department of Defense, The National Science Foundation, The U.S. State Department, and The American Library Association. Lankes is a passionate advocate for libraries and their essential role in today's society, earning him the American Library Association's Ken Haycock Award for Promoting Librarianship in 2016. He also seeks to understand how information approaches and technologies can be used to transform industries. In this capacity he has served on advisory boards and study teams in the fields of libraries, telecommunications, education, and transportation including at the National Academies. He has been a visiting fellow at the National Library of Canada, The Harvard School of Education, and was the first fellow of ALA's Office for Information Technology Policy. His book The Atlas of New Librarianship won the 2012 ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Award for the Best Book in Library Literature. Klappentext "[I]deal for readers seeking a more comprehensive look at information dissemination technology, its context, and its impact on the way in which we now live." Library Journal, Starred Review • Explore how the tools of our information age grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Zusammenfassung The tools of our information age—from search engines to data mining to smart appliances—grew directly out of conflicts from World War I to the present day. Explore how today’s Information Society reflects a worldview shaped by a century of war Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: From Alert to a Promise to the Reader Data Chapter 1 Common Carriers: From Telegraphs to Internet Kill Switches Chapter 2 Encryption: From Zimmerman to the Monetized Self Chapter 3 Massive Scale Computing: From Depth Bombs to Deep Learning Chapter 4 The Internet: From Hydrogen Bombs to 5G Chapter 5 The World Wide Web: From CERN to Facial Recognition Chapter 6 Dataism: From Reducing Noise to Reducing People Data Waypoint: The Span of the Knowledge Infrastructure Media Chapter 7 Propaganda: From Influencing Minds to Manipulating Brains Chapter 8 Memory Organizations: From Weaponized Librarianship to a Digital Dark Age From Collecting Books to Collecting Intelligence Chapter 9 Media Consolidation: From Steamboat Willie to Disney + Chapter 10 Trust: From Walter Cronkite to Saul Alinsky Media Waypoint: The Weaponized Knowledge Infrastructure Society Chapter 11 Certainty: From Clockwork to Complexity Chapter 12 Pandemic: From the Spanish Flu to COVID-19 Chapter 13 People: From Empty Campuses to Open Arms Chapter 14 Technology: From Zoom Bombs to the Shin Bet Chapter 15 Sources: From Swans in Venice to Floods in New Orleans Chapter 16 Policy: From a Commodity to a Public Good Chapter 17 A Choice: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World Society Waypoint: From Chemical Warfare to Healing the World Excursus: On the Joys of Writing and How to Check My Facts About the Author ...
