Info-rich-info-poor : access and exchange in the global information society

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Preface
• 1 The information-knowledge chain = 1
• Data = 1
• Information = 3
• Knowledge = 5
• Wisdom／insight = 5
• Narrowing for fit = 7
• The key role of memory = 9
• Non-human memories = 13
• The construction of urgency = 18
• Information overload = 19
• The search for electronic minds = 24
• Neural computing = 30
• References = 33
• 2 Information moments = 35
• Speech and language = 39
• Writing = 44
• Paper and printing = 51
• Gender benders = 69
• References = 74
• 3 The knowledge surplus = 77
• Second-class information = 82
• First-class information = 86
• Flexibility and poverty: Europe, America and Asia = 95
• The shipbuilder's tale = 100
• The equity trader's tale = 104
• The chancellor's tale = 108
• Info-poor, underdeveloped, and likely to stay that way = 114
• References = 126
• 4 Information and cultural context = 128
• Information and cultural destabilization = 131
• Information acceptance and rejection: open and closed = 136
• Suppression and misuse: still going strong = 141
• Consumer information: coca-colonization = 153
• Cartoons and Gabriella, coffee and Cheers = 156
• Media habits, lifestyles and culture = 162
• Minamata and the rain forests = 174
• References = 178
• 5 Information concentration: more or less? = 181
• Reed Elsevier = 182
• Pearson = 184
• Time Warner = 185
• Sony and Matsushita = 188
• One dead, one out, one still in the ring = 189
• Power Corporation = 192
• News Corporation = 192
• News Corporation, Hong Kong and the battle for China = 195
• Paramount, Viacom and QVC = 200
• Bell Atlantic and Telecommunications Inc (TCI) = 202
• Last but not least, Italy = 204
• What does it all mean? = 208
• Concentration: hospitality or restriction? = 218
• Truth, reliability, distortion = 226
• References = 238
• 6 Epilogue: some final thoughts = 240
• Index = 260