Information technologies and social orders. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Carl J. Couch ; edited with an introduction by David R. Maines and Shing-Ling Chen.
• Other Names: Couch, Carl J; Maines, David R; Chen, Shing-Ling
• Contents: Introduction and action: An introduction to Carl Couch's analysis of information technologies / David R. Maines and Shing-Ling Chen -- Introduction -- Orality -- Decoratons and depictions -- Extending temporal structures -- Numeric and spatial concepts -- Bureaucratic structures -- Written languages -- Printing books -- Newspapers and state structures -- Telecommunications: overcoming space -- Recorded sounds and sights -- Broadcasting sounds and sights -- Information-processing machines -- Knowledge centers -- Oh, what webs those phantoms spin.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (292 pages)
• Subjects: 303.48/33; 302; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / General; Communication -- Social aspects; Information technology -- Social aspects; Information society; Communication -- Aspect social; Société informatisée; Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social; Communication -- Aspect social; Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social; Société informatisée; Communication -- Social aspects; Information society; Information technology -- Social aspects; Communicatie; Informatie; Informatietechnologie; Sociale aspecten; Informatiemaatschappij; Gesellschaft; Informationstechnik; Kommunikation; Sozialer Wandel; Kommunikation; Aufsatzsammlung; Aufsatzsammlung
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351512527; 1351512528
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.