European Modernism and the Information Society - Informing the Present, Understanding the Past (Hardcover, New Ed)

The contributors to this volume present the ideas of early Twentieth Century European thinkers about how best to create, disseminate and manage publicly available information.Interdisciplinary in perspective, the volume reflects the nature of the thinkers discussed, including: Otto Neurath, Patrick Geddes, the English Fabians, Paul Otlet, Wilhelm Ostwald and H G Wells. It also charts the interest since the latter part of the nineteenth century in finding new ways to think about and to devise systems and technologies to manage the growing body of available information in such a way that Western civilization might be advanced; social misery and inequalities across classes and nations alleviated; economic prosperity promoted; and to the cause of peaceful coexistence among nations advanced. In doing so, the contributors provide a novel historical context for assessing widely held assumptions about today's globalized, 'post modern' information society.This volume will be of interest to sociologists, cultural studies scholars, historians of architecture, urban planning, science and technology studies and to library and information scientists as well as to all who are curious about the complex context of what has been called today's information revolution and the creation of a modern networked information society.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
First published:	2008
Editors:	W.Boyd Rayward
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	358
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-7546-4928-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Impact of science & technology on society Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-7546-4928-8
Barcode:	9780754649281

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