Information and Society
$34.64
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2017
Summary
A short, informal account of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data.We live in an information society, or so we are often told. But what does that mean? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise, informal account of the ways in which information and society are related and of our ever-increasing dependence on a complex multiplicity of messages, records, documents, and data. Using information in its ever…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533386 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262533383 |
| Author: | Michael Buckland |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2017 |
| Weight: | 212g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 127mm x 13mm |
| Series: | MIT Press Essential Knowledge series |
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Critics Review
Buckland’s tour through the essentials of information handling—also because of its clear and mind-refreshing language—opens a new perspective on cyberlaw. The book invites us to take a step back from ever-changing technological characteristics, regulatory reactions, and accumulating caselaw and to take a fresh look at what all this is about, at how our societies create, handle, organize, share and restrict information and at how all this should be done considering our constitutional value systems—in short, to look at information law properly and then from there to discuss and evaluate the implications of technological change.
—Herbert Burkert, JotwellAbout The Author
Michael Buckland
Michael Buckland is Emeritus Professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and Codirector of the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative there.
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