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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 an

A New Theory of Information the Internet

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      Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
      Publication Date: 1/31/2011 12:05:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781433110627, 978-1433110627
      ISBN10: 1433110628

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 an

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