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Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

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Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: May 13, 1999

ISBN: 0415161150

ISBN 13: 9780415161152

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

Language: English

Pages: 328

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Routledge

Release: May 13, 1999

ISBN: 0415161150

ISBN 13: 9780415161152

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