Information : : Keywords / / ed. by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, Jonathan E. Abel.
For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 |
---|---|
MitwirkendeR: | |
HerausgeberIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Other title: | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Information + Humanities -- Abundance -- Algorithm -- Archive -- Bioinformatics -- Cognition -- Gossip -- Index -- Intel -- Keyword -- Knowledge -- Noise -- Screen -- Search -- Self- Tracking -- Tele (Τῆλε) -- Contributors -- Index |
---|---|
Summary: | For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”—a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information.This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today. Bringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives. Together with Information: A Reader, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780231552806 9783110739077 9783110754001 9783110753776 9783110754117 9783110753882 |
DOI: | 10.7312/kenn19876 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Michele Kennerly, Samuel Frederick, Jonathan E. Abel. |