Birth of Modern Facts
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-5381-7390-9 (ISBN)
James W. Cortada is Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. He formerly worked at IBM Corporation in a variety of sales, consulting, research, management, and executive positions. His research and writing have focused on the business history of information technology and in the role of information in modern societies. He is the author or editor of more than three dozen books and serves on the editorial board of key journals devoted to the history of information and its technologies. Most recently he co-authored with William Aspray, Fake News Nation: The Long History of Lies and Misinterpretations in America (R&L, 2019) and From Urban Legends to Political Fact-Checking (Springer, 2019); and authored Building Blocks of Society: History, Information Ecosystems, and Infrastructures (R&L, 2021).
Preface
How Librarians, Scholars, and the New Professions Defined Modern Information
Second Industrial Revolution Encounters Information
How Librarians Organized Information
Early Encounters by Computer Builders
Mathematicians and Statisticians Create New Tools
Scientists and Medical Experts Shape Information
New Business and Government Information Ecosystems
What Information Economists Created
Contributions of Political Scientists and Historians to Modern Information
How Information Evolved
Endnotes
Bibliographic Essay
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2023 |
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Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
Gewicht | 812 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
ISBN-10 | 1-5381-7390-5 / 1538173905 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-5381-7390-9 / 9781538173909 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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