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Abstract

Malone and Elichirigoity review the concept of "information" as it exists in the 1997 implemented North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), the current scheme for the organization of governmental data about the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The term represents one of 20 major economic sectors based upon processes of production and upon which data may be reported. It also represents a measurable commodity based upon the concept of copyright. A review of the background studies and reports which document the development of NAICS shows the desire for a single underlying principle, similarity of production processes rather than a marketing approach, and the construction of the information sector within the context of globalization and the internet. The three nations agreed in 1996 that the information sector should consist of industries engaged in the "transformation of information into a commodity that is produced, manipulated and distributed...," or as the NAICS manual states, industries that "primarily create and disseminate a product subject to copyright." However, industries that transfer or transport such products are also included which seems inconsistent with the production principle. In 2002 the category was modified to separate internet publishing and broadcasting from these subcategories and to create an internet services category.

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Abstract

Bakhtin's theory of the chronotope is used to examine how representations of space and time affect the first six classes of the North American Industrial Classification System. By examining the class sequence as a narrative of the product life cycle, the study suggests that this new classification system, designed to harmonize the gathering of statistical data among the three countries of North America, manifests an economic paradigm which diminishes the visibility of community ties based an geographical proximity, community identity, and communication across social and economic barriers.