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Author_Kevin Robins
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Computer Literacy
Contemporary Society
critical studies of digital society
cybernetic theory
Daryush Shayegan
Dense
digital transformation
Education System
educational policy analysis
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Everyday Life
Face To Face
Friction Free Capitalism
General National Vocational Qualifications
industrial
information
Information Revolution
Information Society
Information Superhighway
Instrumental Progressivism
Integrated Code
knowledge capitalism
life
lippmann
Mass Observation
military technology influence
Postmodern University
Public Sector Higher Education
revolution
Scientific Management
Social Reproduction
society
stonier
Symbolic Analysts
tom
Transferable Skills
virtual
virtual community research
Virtual Culture
Virtual Technologies
walter
World Brain
Product details
- ISBN 9780415161152
- Weight: 657g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.
