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

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

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