This volume examines the convergence of biotechnology and
communication systems and explores how this convergence directly
influences our understanding of the nature of communication. Editor
Sandra Braman brings together scholars to examine this convergence
in three areas: genetic information and "facticity"; social issues
and implications; and the economic and legal issues raised by the
production and ownership of information. The work highlights the
sophisticated processes taking place as biotechnology and
information technology systems continue to evolve. The chapters in
this book approach the complex history of this topic and the issues
it raises from a number of directions. It begins by examining the
shared features and spaces of biotechnology and digital information
technologies as meta-technologies--qualitatively distinct from both
the tools first used in the premodern era and the industrial
technologies that characterized modernity. Next, the book explores
what is and is not useful in treating the types of information
processed by the two meta-technologies through a shared conceptual
lens and looks at issues raised by the ownership of genetic and
digital information. The final chapters are concerned with
relationships between information and power. Defining a future
research agenda for communication scholarship, this work is
beneficial to scholars and students in science communication,
cultural studies, information technologies, and sociology.
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