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Information Technologies and Social Orders (Communication and Social Order)
Information Technologies and Social Orders - Communication and Social Order Author:Carl J. Couch, David R. Maines, Shing-Ling Chen Carl J. Couch In this, his last book, Couch views the history of human society as a history of successive, sometimes overlapping information technologies used to process the varied symbolic representations that inform particular social contexts. To depict the essential interface between these technologies and their social contexts, he here adopt... more »s a consistent theory of interpersonal and intergroup relations. With admirable scope, he details the transformative process of information technologies, citing instances of mass brutality and oppression that have resulted from the oligarchic control of them. Couch's theory and substantive analysis speak directly to the interests of historians, sociologists, arid communication scholars.« less