- Title
- A new theory of information & the internet: public sphere meets protocol.
- Creator
- Balnaves, Mark; Willson, Michelle
- Relation
- Digital Formations 66
- Relation
- http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=54345
- Publisher
- Peter Lang
- Resource Type
- book
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- 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.
- Subject
- internet; information; communication
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059282
- Identifier
- uon:16561
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781433110627
- Language
- eng
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