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Times of the Technoculture

From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

Kevin Robins author Frank Webster author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:13th May '99

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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.

ISBN: 9780415161169

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 498g

328 pages