Information: A Reader

Book Overview

For decades, we have been told we live in the "information age"--a time when disruptive technological advancement has reshaped the categories and social uses of knowledge and when quantitative assessment is increasingly privileged. Such methodologies and concepts of information are usually considered the provenance of the natural and social sciences, which present them as politically and philosophically neutral. Yet the humanities should and do...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231186215
• ISBN13: 9780231186216
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"