Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life by Robins, Kevin

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415161169)

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Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life by Robins, Kevin

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

$46.95
Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life by Robins, Kevin

Times of the Technoculture: From the Information Society to the Virtual Life

$46.95
Format: Paperback
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Times of the Technoculture explores the social and cultural impact of new technologies, tracing the origins of the information society from the coming of the machine with the industrial revolution to the development of mass production techniques in the early twentieth century.
The authors look at how the military has controlled the development of the information society, and consider the centrality of education in government attempts to create a knowledge society. Engaging in contemporary debates surrounding the internet, Robins and Webster question whether it can really offer us a new world of virtual communities, and suggest more radical alternatives to the corporate agenda of contemporary technologies.

Author: Kevin Robins, Frank Webster
ISBN-10: 0415161169
ISBN-13: 9780415161169
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 05/13/1999
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

Review Citation(s):
Scitech Book News 06/01/2000 pg. 112
By Kevin Robins
By Kevin Robins
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Kevin Robins is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Newcastle. Frank Webster is Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham.

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