 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
PUBLISHING AS A VOCATION
STUDIES OF AN OLD OCCUPATION IN A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL ERA |
| By: |
Irving Louis Horowitz |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£145.00 |
| Our price: |
£130.50 |
| Discount: |
|
| You save:
|
£14.50 |
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
1412811104 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781412811101 |
| Availability: |
Usually dispatched within 1-3 weeks.
 Delivery
rates
|
| Stock: |
Currently 0 available |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2010 |
| Pages: |
167 |
| Description: |
Arguing that at its best, information technology can be harnessed to facilitate the expression of democratic thought, this book places publishing in America in its political and commercial setting and suggests that by providing better access to production and technology, there is great hope to liberate humankind from ignorance and ideology. |
| Synopsis: |
The linkage of politics and technology is now the driving momentum in communication. Publishers are now part of the astonishing transformation of the slow to the instant. From twitters to bloggers, the communication of ideas can now be accomplished in a matter of minutes, not weeks, months, or even years. Horowitz believes that at its best, information technology can be harnessed to facilitate the expression of democratic thought. In providing better access to production and technology, there is great hope to liberate humankind from ignorance and ideology-and imagination is what the purpose of publishing is and always will be about. If politics is the art of the possible, then technology can be harnessed to the higher art of transforming scientific principles into everyday practices. Publishing as a Vocation places publishing in America in its political and commercial setting. It addresses the political implications of scholarly communication in the era of new computerized technology.Horowitz examines problems of political theory in the context of property rights versus the presumed right to know, and the special strains involved in publishing as commerce versus information as a public trust. Offering a knowledgeable and insightful view of publishing in America and abroad, this book makes an important contribution to the study of mass culture in advanced societies. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Transaction Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|