The Information Age and History: Looking Backward to See Us

Cox, Richard J (2000) The Information Age and History: Looking Backward to See Us. Ubiquity (30).

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Abstract

While social informatics as a discipline is promising, especially in its emphasis on the "social context" of information technologies, this field does not seem to extend this concern to a broad historical context. This is a problem, in that some, like James Dewar's article on the printing press and the Internet that this essay is a rebuttal, are looking for historical and broader or more meaningful contexts by which the present era can be effectively understood. While we can see some historians of other fields turning their attention to earlier eras as representing earlier Information Ages -- partly to argue, it seems, that every historical era has been an information age -- it has been even more noticeable when non-historian participants in the present Information Age turn to historical studies for meaning, causation, and solace.

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Item Type:	Article
Status:	Published
Creators/Authors:	Creators Email Pitt Username ORCID Cox, Richard J rjcox@pitt.edu RJCOX
Date:	26 September 2000
Date Type:	Publication
Journal or Publication Title:	Ubiquity
Number:	30
Publisher:	Association for Computing Machinery
Institution:	University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs:	School of Information Sciences > Library and Information Science
Refereed:	Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:	printing, press, Information, Age, James, Dewar, Elizabeth, Eisenstein, networking, social, informatics
Official URL:	http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/
Date Deposited:	02 Jun 2009 17:40
Last Modified:	31 Jul 2020 18:55
URI:	http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2698

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