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Content

An information view of history -- Organs of the human brain, created by the human hand : toward an understanding of information technology -- Information society or cash nexus? : a study of the United States as a copyright haven -- As sharp as a pen : direct semantic ratification in oral, written, and electronic communication -- In the catalogue ye go for men : evaluation criteria for information retrieval systems -- Meta- and object-language for information retrieval research : proposal for a distinction -- Forms of labor in information systems -- W(h)ither information science?

Footnote

Rez. in: JASIST. 56(2003) no.12, S.1360 (C.Tomer): "Humanizing Information Technology is a collection of essays that represent what are presumably Julian Warner's best efforts to understand the perpetually nascent discipline of information science and its relationship to information technology. It is clearly a formidable task. Warner succeeds occasionally in this endeavor; more often, he fails. Yet, it would be wrong to mark Humanizing Information Technology as a book not worth reading. On the contrary, though much fault was found and this review is far from positive, it was nevertheless a book well-worth reading. That Humanizing Information Technology succeeds at all is in some ways remarkable, because Warner's prose tends to be dense and graceless, and understanding his commentaries often relies an close readings of a wide array of sources, some of them familiar, many of them less so. The inaccessibility of Warner's prose is unfortunate; there is not a single idea in Humanizing Information Technology so complicated that it could not have been stated in a clear, straightforward manner. The failure to establish a clear, sufficiently füll context for the more obscure sources is an even more serious problem. Perhaps the most conspicuous example of this problem stems from the frequent examination of the concept of the "information society" and the related notion of information as an autonomous variable, each of them ideas drawn largely from Frank Webster's 1995 book, Theories of the Information Society. Several of Warner's essays contain passages in Humanizing Information Technology whose meaning and value are largely dependent an a familiarity with Webster's work. Yet, Warner never refers to Theories of the Information Society in more than cursory terms and never provides a context füll enough to understand the particular points of reference. Suffice it to say, Humanizing Information Technology is not a book for readers who lack patience or a thorough grounding in modern intellectual history. Warner's philosophical analyses, which frequently exhibit the meter, substance, and purpose of a carefully crafted comprehensive examination, are a large part of what is wrong with Humanizing Information Technology. Warner's successes come when he turns his attention away from Marxist scholasticism and toward historical events and trends. "Information Society or Cash Nexus?" the essay in which Warner compares the role of the United States as a "copyright haven" for most of the 19th century to modern China's similar status, is successful because it relies less an abstruse analysis and more an a sharply drawn comparison of the growth of two economies and parallel developments in the treatment of intellectual property. The essay establishes an illuminating context and cites historical precedents in the American experience suggesting that China's official positions toward intellectual property and related international conventions are likely to evolve and grow more mature as its economy expands and becomes more sophisticated. Similarly, the essay entitled "In the Catalogue Ye Go for Men" is effective because Warner comes dangerously close to pragmatism when he focuses an the possibility that aligning cataloging practice with the "paths and tracks" of discourse and its analysis may be the means by which to build more information systems that furnish a more direct basis for intellectual exploration.
Like Daniel Bell, the author of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973), who used aspects of Marx's thinking as the basis for his social forecasting models, Warner uses Marxist thought as a tool for social and historical analysis. Unlike Bell, Warner's approach to Marx tends to be doctrinaire. As a result, "An Information View of History" and "Origins of the Human Brain," two of the essays in which Warner sets out to establish the connections between information science and information technology, are less successful. Warner argues, "the classic source for an understanding of technology as a human construction is Marx," and that "a Marxian perspective an information technology could be of high marginal Utility," noting additionally that with the exception of Norbert Wiener and John Desmond Bernal, "there has only been a limited penetration of Marxism into information science" (p. 9). But Warner's efforts to persuade the reader that these views are cogent never go beyond academic protocol. Nor does his support for the assertion that the second half of the 19th century was the critical period for innovation and diffusion of modern information technologies. The closing essay, "Whither Information Science?" is particularly disappointing, in part, because the preface and opening chapters of the book promised more than was delivered at the end. Warner asserts that the theoretical framework supporting information science is negligible, and that the discipline is limited even further by the fact that many of its members do not recognize or understand the effects of such a limitation. However cogent the charges may be, none of this is news. But the essay fails most notably because Warner does not have any new directions to offer, save that information scientists should pay closer artention to what is going an in allied disciplines. Moreover, he does not seem to understand that at its heart the "information revolution" is not about the machines, but about the growing legions of men and women who can and do write programming code to exert control over and find new uses for these devices. Nor does he seem to understand that information science, in the grip of what he terms a "quasi-global crisis," suffers grievously because it is a community situated not at the center but rather an the periphery of this revolution."

LCSH

Information science
Information technology / Social aspects
Information society
Information storage and retrieval systems

RSWK

Informationsgesellschaft / Informationstechnik / Information-Retrieval-System / Informationsspeicher

Subject

Informationsgesellschaft / Informationstechnik / Information-Retrieval-System / Informationsspeicher
Information science
Information technology / Social aspects
Information society
Information storage and retrieval systems

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Content

Inhalt: William J. Mitchell - Die neue Ökonomie der Präsenz - Bausteine der Netztheorie Jay D. Bolter: Das Internet in der Geschichte der Technologien des Schreibens - Mike Sandbothe: Interaktivität - Hypertextualität - Transversalität. Eine medienphilosophische Analyse des Internet - Sybille Krämer: Vom Mythos »Künstliche Intelligenz« zum Mythos »Künstliche Kommunikation« oder: Ist eine nicht-anthropomorphe Beschreibung von Internet-Interaktionen möglich? - Stefan Münker: Was heißt eigentlich: »virtuelle Realität«? Ein philosophischer Kommentar zum neuesten Versuch der Verdopplung der Welt - Die Idee virtueller Gemeinschaften Steven Jones: Kommunikation, das Internet und Elektromagnetismus - Mark Poster: Elektronische Identitäten und Demokratie - Alexander Roesler: Bequeme Einmischung. Internet und Öffentlichkeit - Rudolf Maresch: Öffentlichkeit im Netz. Ein Phantasma schreibt sich fort - Digitale Märkte Saskia Sassen: Cyber-Segmentierungen. Elektronischer Raum und Macht - Alexandra Vitt: Zukunftsvision Cybergeld: Finanzdienste und ihre Netzerfahrung - Gerhard Schub von Bossiazky: Perspektiven für die neuen Online-Vertriebswege - Günter Müller - Das Internet als Experimentierfeld für moderne Telekommunikationsinfrastrukturen - Netzkultur Eduardo Kac: Das Internet und die Zukunft der Kunst - Uwe Wirth - Literatur im Internet. Oder: Wen kümmert's, wer liest? - Geert Lovink und Pit Schultz: Anmerkungen zur Netzkritik - Florian Rötzer - Virtueller Raum oder Weltraum? Raumutopien des digitalen Zeitalters

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RSWK

Bedeutung / Information / Kommunikation (BVB)

Subject

Bedeutung / Information / Kommunikation (BVB)

Theme

Information

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Abstract

Information ist Anfang und Grundlage der Gesellschaft. Wie die Nachrichtentechnik sich in der Vergangenheit entwickelte, wie sie die Gesellschaft veränderte und wie dieser Prozess sich wohl in der Zukunft fortsetzen wird, ist der Gegenstand dieses Buches.

Footnote

"Die informierte Gesellschaft In Zukunft werden die Menschen nicht nur über mehr materielle Güter und mehr Energie verfügen, sondern auch über sehr viel mehr Information. Der Besitz an Wissen wird mit unvorstellbarer Geschwindigkeit vergrößert werden, Informationen über Ereignisse an entfernten Orten werden durch Telegrafie, Fernsprecher und Fernsehen überallhin transportiert werden, diesewerden in Computern miteinander verknüpft und auf ihre Wirkung analysiert, das gesamte Wissen wird in riesigen, allen Menschen zugänglichen Informationsbanken gespeichert sein. Menschen werden mit Methoden belehrt, welche das Lernen zum Vergnügen machen und vom gegenwärtigen Stil der Massen- und Bestrafungsausbildung weiter entfernt sind als ein Elektromotor von einer Tretmühle. Die zukünftige Gesellschaft wird nicht nur eine Gesellschaft ohne Mangel an materiellen Gütern und Energie sein, die zukünftige Gesellschaft wird im besonderen eine informierte Gesellschaft sein. Der Übergang von der schlecht informierten Gesellschaft zur informierten Gesellschaft wird Veränderungen im menschlichen Verhalten bewirken. Zwar gibt es Komponenten des menschlichen Verhaltens, die unveränderbar sind, aber es ist sicher, daß sich der Mensch in einer anderen Umwelt anders verhalten wird. Die informierte Gesellschaft ist eine Umwelt, deren Wirkung auf den Menschen bisher noch nicht untersucht werden konnte. Das zukünftig zu erwartende Informiertsein über die Konsequenzen menschlichen Verhaltens ermöglicht es, spezielle Verhaltensmuster an deren Konsequenzen zu bewerten, nicht - wie es bisher üblich war - durch Vergleich mit der Tradition. Der kritische Blick orientiert sich dann weniger an der Vergangenheit, mehr an der Zukunft. Diese veränderte Blickrichtung ergibt sich zwangsläufig bei Menschen, deren Schicksal die Permanenz der Veränderung ist. Das Grundgesetz wird sein: Zukunft geht vor Vergangenheit! Wo immer eine aus der Vergangenheit stammende Denkweise in Kollision gerät mit Entwürfen, welche die Verbesserung menschlicher Existenz in der Zukunft ermöglichen, muß die Denkweise der Vergangenheit zurücktreten. Nichts zwingt den Menschen, die ungeheuren Möglichkeiten der Wissenschaft und Technik zu seinem Unheil zu verwenden, alle Wege sind offen, Wissenschaft und Technik zu seinem Wohle zu verwenden."

Theme

Information