Information Society News

Author : Sian Lewis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846216
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book News and Society in the Greek Polis written by Sian Lewis and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and inst

Author : Kai Rannenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642018203
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Future of Identity in the Information Society written by Kai Rannenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digitising personal information is changing our ways of identifying persons and managing relations. What used to be a "natural" identity, is now as virtual as a user account at a web portal, an email address, or a mobile phone number. It is subject to diverse forms of identity management in business, administration, and among citizens. Core question and source of conflict is who owns how much identity information of whom and who needs to place trust into which identity information to allow access to resources. This book presents multidisciplinary answers from research, government, and industry. Research from states with different cultures on the identification of citizens and ID cards is combined towards analysis of HighTechIDs and Virtual Identities, considering privacy, mobility, profiling, forensics, and identity related crime. "FIDIS has put Europe on the global map as a place for high quality identity management research." –V. Reding, Commissioner, Responsible for Information Society and Media (EU)

Author : Simson Garfinkel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262071963
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Architects of the Information Society written by Simson Garfinkel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) hasbeen responsible for some of the most significant technological achievements of the past fewdecades. Much of the hardware and software driving the information revolution has been, andcontinues to be, created at LCS. Anyone who sends and receives email, communicates with colleaguesthrough a LAN, surfs the Web, or makes decisions using a spreadsheet is benefiting from thecreativity of LCS members.LCS is an interdepartmental laboratory that brings together faculty,researchers, and students in a broad program of study, research, and experimentation. Theirprincipal goal is to pursue innovations in information technology that will improve people's lives.LCS members have been instrumental in the development of ARPAnet, the Internet, the Web, Ethernet,time-shared computers, UNIX, RSA encryption, the X Windows system, NuBus, and many othertechnologies.This book, published in celebration of LCS's thirty-fifth anniversary, chronicles itshistory, achievements, and continued importance to computer science. The essays are complemented byhistorical photographs.

Author : Jonathan Bishop
Publisher : The Crocels Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 178518007X
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Perspectives on the Information Society written by Jonathan Bishop and published by The Crocels Press Limited. This book was released on 2019 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on the Information Society is a complete introduction to many of the issues faced in the digital age. It investigates information society services, such as those involving transferring to the Cloud and maintaining customer satisfaction in banking, through to the threats faced from disinformation and online troll movements like Anonymous. The book takes a global perspective, in particular in relation to the United Kingdom and Africa, from both a legal and societal angle. Issues such as IT project success and failure are also discussed. Perspectives on the Information Society serves as an essential reference for those seeking to understand New Media and Network Societies from a service-orientated standpoint.

Author : Rivoltella, Pier Cesare
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1599048000
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Digital Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society written by Rivoltella, Pier Cesare and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Currently in a state of cultural transition, global society is moving from a literary society to digital one, adopting widespread use of advanced technologies such as the Internet and mobile devices. Digital media has an extraordinary impact on society's formative processes, forcing a pragmatic shift in their management and organization. Digital Literacy: Tools and Methodologies for Information Society strives to define a conceptual framework for understanding social changes produced by digital media and creates a framework within which digital literacy acts as a tool to assist younger generations to interact critically with digital media and their culture, providing scholars, educators, researchers, and practitioners a technological and sociological approach to this cutting-edge topic from an educational perspective.

Author : Alistair Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317034996
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Early Information Society written by Alistair Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether termed the 'network society', the 'knowledge society' or the 'information society', it is widely accepted that a new age has dawned, unveiled by powerful computer and communication technologies. Yet for millennia humans have been recording knowledge and culture, engaging in the dissemination and preservation of information. In `The Early Information Society', the authors argue for an earlier incarnation of the information age, focusing upon the period 1900-1960. In support of this they examine the history and traditions in Britain of two separate but related information-rich occupations - information management and information science - repositioning their origins before the age of the computer and identifying the forces driving their early development. `The Early Information Society' offers an historical account which questions the novelty of the current information society. It will be essential reading for students, researchers and practitioners in the library and information science field, and for sociologists and historians interested in the information society.

Author : Karamjit S. Gill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447132491
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Information Society written by Karamjit S. Gill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-centredness: A Challenge to Post-industrial Europe? The key power in industrial society has been linked to the possession of capital and factory. In the "information society" it could be rather different. If one accepts that that the key power in the information society will be linked not so much to the ownership of information but to human creativity nourished by that information, the productive force of today and tomorrow, could be more and more the human brain. Making use of one's intelligence is always accompanied by positive emotion, which in turn further activates the intelligence. But, unfortunately, under present conditions workers of all levels live in fear, anxiety and stress rather than desire and motivation. The question of "basic human ecology" (quality of life) is, therefore, a major strategic factor. It is precisely the opposite to the mechanisms of exclusion that currently dominate our society: exclusion of young people through joblessness - but also exclusion through technology, as with the helplessness of older people or the poorly educated confronted with ticket dispensing machines or other automats. This is not idle theorizing, it corresponds to concrete facts. It is, for example, how some observers interpret the crisis at IBM. Because its programs were less 'human-friendly', it was shaken to its foundations by Apple and Microsof- though it seems since to have learnt its lesson.

Author : Frank Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415282000
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Theories of the Information Society written by Frank Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first edition of Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster set out to make sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the information society, and critically examining all the major post-war theories and approaches to informational development.

Author : Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135019266
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Critique, Social Media and the Information Society written by Christian Fuchs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have caused uproars in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. On the other hand, the question arises as to what actual role social media play in contemporary capitalism, crisis, rebellions, the strengthening of the commons, and the potential creation of participatory democracy. The commodification of everything has resulted also in a commodification of the communication commons, including Internet communication that is today largely commercial in character. This book deals with the questions of what kind of society and what kind of Internet are desirable, how capitalism, power structures and social media are connected, how political struggles are connected to social media, what current developments of the Internet and society tell us about potential futures, how an alternative Internet can look like, and how a participatory, commons-based Internet and a co-operative, participatory, sustainable information society can be achieved.

Author : P. E. Thomas
Publisher : Information Science Reference
ISBN 13 : 9781466685987
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society written by P. E. Thomas and published by Information Science Reference. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society including law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and more"--