Digital Information Culture - The Individual and Society in the Digital Age (Paperback, New)

Digital Information Culture is an introduction to the cultural, social and political impact of digital information and digital resources. The book is organised around themes, rather than theories and is arranged into three sections: culture, society and the individual. Each explores key elements of the social, cultural and political impact of digital information. The culture section outlines the origins of cyber culture in fifties pulp-fiction through to the modern day. It explores the issues of information overload, the threat of a digital dark age, and the criminal underbelly of digital culture. Section two, society, explores the economic and social impact of digital information, outlining key theories of the Information Age. Section three explores the impact of digital information and digital resources on the individual, exploring the changing nature of identity in a digital world.
Written by a leading author in the fieldFocuses on digital information and its social, cultural and political impact is uniqueThe wider theoretical framework, relying less of sociology, more on cultural theory

General

Imprint:	Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Chandos Information Professional Series
Release date:	March 2008
First published:	April 2008
Authors:	Luke Tredinnick
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	220
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84334-160-4
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Automation of library & information processes
LSN:	1-84334-160-3
Barcode:	9781843341604

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