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[ecrea] New Book: A New Theory of Information and the Internet: Public Sphere meets Protocol

Mon May 30 12:01:38 GMT 2011


Mark Balnaves and Michele Willson, /A New Theory of Information and the Internet: Public Sphere meets Protocol/, Digital Formation Series, Vol. 66, Peter Lang Publishing: New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2011.

About the book:

The Internet is a complex environment that affords many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop languages and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment. This book begins this undertaking.


A New Theory of Information & the Internet first documents the historical emergence of the scientific, mathematical, computing, and human communication discussions on information, together with the rise of information as a resource and a commodity. It posits that the contemporary situation has not changed in terms of resolving exactly what information might be as a real thing. What has changed is the idea of information as a resource and a commodity, which has become a cultural trope—a standard way of looking at information.


In the process of examining the understanding of information and communication , this book investigates the notion of an informed citizenry and the possibilities of a public sphere/s online within the context of the increasingly ubiquitous place of the Internet in social, informational life.

· *ISBN-10:* 1433110628

· *ISBN-13:* 978-1433110627

http://www.amazon.com/New-Theory-Information-Internet-Formations/dp/1433110628/

Available as pb or hb. See: http://www.peterlang.com/download/datasheet/61886/datasheet_311063.pdf

ThanksJ


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