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"Information technology shapes nearly every part of modern life, and debates about information--its meaning, effects, and applications--are central to a range of fields, from economics, technology, and politics to library science, media studies, and cultural studies. This rich, unique resource traces the history of information with an approach designed to draw connections across fields and perspectives, and provide essential context for our current age of information. Clear, accessible, and authoritative, the book opens with a series of articles that provide a narrative history of information from premodern practices to twenty-first-century information culture. This section focuses on major developments in the creation, storage, search, exchange, management, and manipulation of information, as well as the many meanings and uses of information over time. Coverage spans Europe, North America, and many other places and periods, including the medieval Islamic world and early modern East Asia, as well as the emergence of global networks. A second, alphabetical section includes more than 100 concise articles that cover specific concepts (e.g., data, intellectual property, privacy); formats and genres (books, databases, maps, newspapers, scrolls, social media); people (archivists, diplomats and spies, readers, secretaries, teachers); practices (censorship, forecasting, learning, surveilling, translating); processes (digitization, quantification, storage and search); systems (bureaucracy, platforms, telecommunications); technologies (algorithms, cameras, computers), and much more. The book concludes with an informative glossary, defining terms from "analog/digital" to "World Wide Web.""-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The historical scope of Information: A historical companion coincides roughly with two key developments in the fifteenth century: the uptake in Europe of movable type in printing and the dawn of a global information economy inaugurated by Columbus’s journeys to the Americas. This rollicking tome covers enormous ground in mostly miniature forays, letting the reader dip in or dive deep at will. Thirteen full-length chapters trace histories of information in Europe, East Asia and the medieval Islamic world, exploring the growth and development of the information networks, technologies and practices that have transformed the world in the past five or so centuries. These are followed by more than a hundred bite-size mini essays on diverse topics, from Lists to Letters, Book Catalogues to Bells and Scribes to Scrolls and Rolls ...