Lee Micky (Suffolk University Usa) - Information - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: This book provides a comprehensive easy - to - understand introductory guide to information offering students the critical tools they need to shift their positioning from consumers and users to creators and critics. Searching accessing and using information are central to most daily lives. Yet many users are not able to define what information is identify who controls information and create information to achieve a common good. In this book Micky Lee teaches readers to critically interrogate key issues such as the categorization of information and knowledge throughout history what digital divides are why information is gender and race biased how governments and corporations control citizens and consumers as well as how we can resist unbalanced power relations. Readers will not only be able to relate these issues to "old" technologies such as writing and printing but will also be able to examine futurist technologies through the lenses of these enduring issues. A thoughtful and comprehensive overview this is an ideal book for students and scholars of media studies information and society and communication and technology.
Title: Information
Author(s): Lee Micky (Suffolk University Usa)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367858728
Pages: 194 Pages
Publication Date: 7/23/2021
Series: Key Ideas in Media & Cultural Studies
Category: Digital Lifestyle