Competing Visions, Complex Realities: Social Aspects of the Information Society

by Jorge Reina Schement, Leah Lievrouw

Overview

This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Each contributor focuses on a specific and significant social aspect of the information-oriented society. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; analyzing information work in the health care industry; defining information in an information-oriented society; the evolution of the concept of information in the courts; the coporatization and privatization of information in the economy; information and the restructuring of the family environment; information in the rural sector; the emergence of Silicon Valley; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780893914028
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	01/01/1987
Series:	Communication and Information Science
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

hement /f Jorge /i Reina

vrouw /f Leah