Building blocks of modern society: history, information ecosystems, and infrastructures

"This book proposes a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretica...

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Main Author: Cortada, James W. 1946- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London Rowman & Littlefield [2021]
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Summary:"This book proposes a way to look at the history of information and to history as a whole that is simultaneously relevant to observers in other disciplines and familiar to historians of business, economics, sociology and technology. The author presents that advocacy in two ways: with theoretical and historiographical discussions of what information ecosystems and infrastructures are and their value for this kind of research, second, through a range of case studies applying those concepts"--
Physical Description:xi, 320 Seiten Iillustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9781538148549
1538148544

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