Book description
In this book the author lays the foundations for a new political economy of information. The information space, or I-Space is the conceptual framework in which organizations, institutions and cultures are being transformed by new information and communication technologies. In the penultimate chapter, the I-Space’s usefulness as an explanatory framework is illustrated with an application: a case study of China’s modernization. Information Space proposes a radical shift in the way that we approach the emerging information age and the implications it holds for societies, organizations and individuals.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Title Page
- Orginal Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Orienting Thoughts on Information
- 2 The Structuring of Information
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3 The Sharing of Information
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Communicating
- 3.3 Communicating Meaningfully: the Sharing of Contexts
- 3.4 Scanning and Diffusion as Social Processes
- 3.5 The Reach of Abstraction
- 3.6 The Utility Space
- 3.7 Relativism
- 3.8 The Social Distribution of Power
- 3.9 Institutions
- 3.10 The Entropy of Social Processes
- 3.11 The C-Space
- 3.12 Information Strategies
- 3.13 Summary and Conclusion
- 4 Dynamic Behaviour: the Social Learning Cycle
- 5 Institutions
- 6 Culture as Economizing
- 7 Case Study – Socialist Transformations
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Product information
- Title: Information Space (RLE: Organizations)
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2013
- Publisher(s): Routledge
- ISBN: 9781135930561
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