A NEW THEORY OF INFORMATION & THE INTERNET by Mark Balnaves, Michele A. Willson ( 9781433110634 )

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A NEW THEORY OF INFORMATION & THE INTERNET
PUBLIC SPHERE MEETS PROTOCOL

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Mark Balnaves, Michele A. Willson

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PETER LANG PUBLISHING INC

Pub. date:

10 June, 2011

Series:

Digital Formations 66

Pages:

200

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A New Theory of Information & the Internet

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The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop languages and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment. This book begins this undertaking. A New Theory of Information & the Internet first documents the historical emergence of the scientific, mathematical, computing, and human communication discussions on information, together with the rise of information as a resource and a commodity. It posits that the contemporary situation has not changed in terms of resolving exactly what information might be as a real thing. What has changed is the idea of information as a resource and a commodity, which has become a cultural trope - a standard way of looking at information. In the process of examining the understanding of information and communication, this book investigates the notion of an informed citizenry and the possibilities of a public sphere/s online within the context of the increasingly ubiquitous place of the Internet in social, informational life.

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