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ISBN 10: 0231198760 ISBN 13: 9780231198769
Editorial: Columbia University Press, 2021

Sinopsis

For decades, we have been told we live in the “information age”―a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do play an important role in interpreting and critiquing the historical, cultural, and conceptual nature of information.

This book is one of two companion volumes that explore theories and histories of information from a humanistic perspective. They consider information as a long-standing feature of social, cultural, and conceptual management, a matter of social practice, and a fundamental challenge for the humanities today.

Bringing together essays by prominent critics, Information: Keywords highlights the humanistic nature of information practices and concepts by thinking through key terms. It describes and anticipates directions for how the humanities can contribute to our understanding of information from a range of theoretical, historical, and global perspectives. Together with Information: A Reader, it sets forth a major humanistic vision of the concept of information.

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Acerca del autor

Michele Kennerly is associate professor of communication arts and sciences and of classics and ancient Mediterranean studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

Samuel Frederick is associate professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.

Jonathan E. Abel is associate professor of comparative literature and Japanese at the Pennsylvania State University.

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Editorial
Columbia University Press
Año de publicación
2021
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0231198760
ISBN 13 
9780231198769
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
232
Editor
Kennerly Michele, Frederick Samuel, Abel Jonathan E.
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