Ann Blair: Information | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780691261553 | Information | A Short History | Ann Blair (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 2024

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An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies

Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become so central to our everyday lives? This book traces the global emergence of information practices and technologies across pivotal epochs and regions, providing invaluable historical perspectives on the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies. Featuring the core articles from the ultimate reference book Information: A Historical Companion, this short history will appeal to anyone seeking to understand our modern mania for an informed existence. The book:

Tells the story of information’s rise from the premodern era to today, exploring how diverse cultures have created, managed, and shared facts and knowledge
Takes readers from the medieval Islamic world to late imperial East Asia, and from early modern and modern Europe to contemporary North America
Covers a broad range of topics, such as networks, bureaucracy, publicity, propaganda, censorship, privacy, intellectual property, digitization, telecommunications, storage and search, and much more
Includes a new introduction, suggested further readings, and a glossary of key terms
Brings together an international team of experts, including Jeremy Adelman, Devin Fitzgerald, John-Paul Ghobrial, Lisa Gitelman, Randolph C. Head, Richard R. John, Elias Muhanna, Thomas S. Mullaney, Carla Nappi, Craig Robertson, Daniel Rosenberg, Will Slauter, and Heidi Tworek

Tells the story of information’s rise from the premodern era to today, exploring how diverse cultures have created, managed, and shared facts and knowledge
Takes readers from the medieval Islamic world to late imperial East Asia, and from early modern and modern Europe to contemporary North America
Covers a broad range of topics, such as networks, bureaucracy, publicity, propaganda, censorship, privacy, intellectual property, digitization, telecommunications, storage and search, and much more
Includes a new introduction, suggested further readings, and a glossary of key terms
Brings together an international team of experts, including Jeremy Adelman, Devin Fitzgerald, John-Paul Ghobrial, Lisa Gitelman, Randolph C. Head, Richard R. John, Elias Muhanna, Thomas S. Mullaney, Carla Nappi, Craig Robertson, Daniel Rosenberg, Will Slauter, and Heidi Tworek

Über den Autor

Ann Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University. Paul Duguid is adjunct professor emeritus at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Anja-Silvia Goeing is professor of history of education at the University of Zurich and an associate in history at Harvard University. Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Paul Duguid
Acknowledgments
1 Premodern Regimes and Practices Anthony Grafton
2 Realms of Information in the Medieval Islamic World Elias Muhanna
3 Information in Early Modern East Asia Devin Fitzgerald and Carla Nappi
4 Information in Early Modern Europe Ann Blair
5 Networks and the Making of a Connected World in the Sixteenth Century John-Paul A. Ghobrial
6 Records, Secretaries, and the European Information State, circa 1400–1700 Randolph C. Head
7 Periodicals and the Commercialization of Information in the Early Modern Era Will Slauter
8 Documents, Empire, and Capitalism in the Nineteenth Century Craig Robertson
9 Nineteenth-Century Media Technologies Lisa Gitelman and Thomas S. Mullaney
10 Networking: Information Circles the Modern World Jeremy Adelman
11 Publicity, Propaganda, and Public Opinion: From the Titanic Disaster to the Hungarian Uprising Richard R. John and Heidi J. S. Tworek
12 Communication, Computation, and Information Paul Duguid
13 Search Daniel Rosenberg
Glossary
Contributors
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Medienwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780691261553
ISBN-10:	0691261555
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Ann Blair Paul Duguid Anja–silvia Goeing Anthony Grafton
Redaktion:	Blair, Ann Duguid, Paul Goeing, Anja-Silvia Grafton, Anthony T.
Hersteller:	Princeton Univers. Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	9 b/w illus.
Maße:	232 x 154 x 24 mm
Von/Mit:	Ann Blair (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.11.2024
Gewicht:	0,622 kg