Living in the Information Age

Download or read book Living in the Information Age written by E. Page Bucy and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIVING IN THE INFORMATION AGE traces the development, surveys the literature, and explores the impact of new technologies on the media landscape, examining both conceptual and practical aspects of life in an information society. The 64 articles comprising this reader examine the utopian promises of technology's true believers, and the dystopian views of technology's critics, all the while exploring how the media industries are being transformed through digital convergence and corporate concentration