A01=Jorge Reina Schement
A01=Leah Lievrouw
Author_Jorge Reina Schement
Author_Leah Lievrouw
Business: Business Communications
Category=GTC
Category=KJ
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Product details
- ISBN 9780893914028
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1987
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Each contributor focuses on a specific and significant social aspect of the information-oriented society. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; analyzing information work in the health care industry; defining information in an information-oriented society; the evolution of the concept of information in the courts; the coporatization and privatization of information in the economy; information and the restructuring of the family environment; information in the rural sector; the emergence of Silicon Valley; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.
