TIMES OF THE TECHNOCULTURE by Kevin Robins, Frank Webster ( 9780415161169 )

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TIMES OF THE TECHNOCULTURE
INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION AND THE TECHNOLOGICAL ORDER

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Kevin Robins, Frank Webster

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0415161169

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

13 May, 1999

Series:

Comedia

Pages:

328

Description:

This book explores the debates surrounding technological change, from the politics of education to questions of identity centred around the figure of the cyborg.

Synopsis:

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.

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