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INFORMATION
Anthony Grafton Ann Blair Anja-Silvia Goeing Paul Duguid
A Historical Companion
A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuries
Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries that span archives to algorithms, and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies.
Written by an international team of experts, the book's inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and conceptsfrom ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence.
Ann Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.
Paul Duguid is an adjunct full professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Anja-Silvia Goeing is professor of history of education at the University of Zurich and an associate in history at Harvard University.
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
Thanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did information become so central to our everyday lives, and how did its processing and storage make our data-driven era possible? This volume is the first to consider these questions in comprehensive detail, tracing the global emergence of information practices, technologies, and more, from the premodern era to the present. With entries that span archives to algorithms, and scribes to surveilling, this is the ultimate reference on how information has shaped and been shaped by societies.
Written by an international team of experts, the book's inspired and original long- and short-form contributions reconstruct the rise of human approaches to creating, managing, and sharing facts and knowledge. Thirteen full-length chapters discuss the role of information in pivotal epochs and regions, with chief emphasis on Europe and North America, but also substantive treatment of other parts of the world as well as current global interconnections. More than 100 alphabetical entries follow, focusing on specific tools, methods, and conceptsfrom ancient coins to the office memo, and censorship to plagiarism. The result is a wide-ranging, deeply immersive collection that will appeal to anyone drawn to the story behind our modern mania for an informed existence.
Ann Blair is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University.
Paul Duguid is an adjunct full professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley. Anja-Silvia Goeing is professor of history of education at the University of Zurich and an associate in history at Harvard University.
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
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