European Modernism and the Information Society

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Alistair Black
Alistair S. Duff
Authorial Subjectivity
Bernd Frohmann
British Public Science
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Charles van den Heuvel
cultural informatics
Dave Muddiman
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documentation science
early twentieth-century information networks
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Frank Hartmann
Frank Webster
Gesellschaft Und Wirtschaft
Gesellschafts Und Wirtschaftsmuseum
Information Infrastructure
Information Society Thesis
International Pictorial Language
knowledge organisation
Le Corbusier
Manchester Public Libraries
Markus Krajewski
Michael Buckland
Monographic Principle
Nader Vossoughian
otlet
Otto Neurath
Outlook Tower
Palais Mondial
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Paul Otlet
Pierre Chabard
Pieter Uyttenhove
Repertoire Bibliographique Universel
Ronald E. Day
Science Museum Library
sociological information theory
Steve Fuller
Suzanne Briet
Sybilla Nikolow
Sylvia Van Peteghem
Thomas Hapke
Traite De Documentation
Typographic Picture Education
UDC
UK Advisory Council
universal bibliography
Vienna Method
visual communication history
World Brain

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138253414
  • Weight: 670g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Uniting a team of international and interdisciplinary scholars, this volume considers the views of early twentieth-century European thinkers on the creation, dissemination and management of publicly available information. Interdisciplinary in perspective, the volume reflects the nature of the thinkers discussed, including Otto Neurath, Patrick Geddes, the English Fabians, Paul Otlet, Wilhelm Ostwald and H. G. Wells. The work also charts the interest since the latter part of the nineteenth century in finding new ways to think about and to manage the growing body of available information in order to achieve aims such as the advancement of Western civilization, the alleviation of inequalities across classes and countries, and the promotion of peaceful coexistence between nations. In doing so, the contributors provide a novel historical context for assessing widely-held assumptions about today's globalized, 'post modern' information society. This volume will interest all who are curious about the creation of a modern networked information society.
W. Boyd Rayward is Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.