Digital Information Culture: The Individual and Society in the Digital Age

Summary This book is an introduction to the cultural, social and political impact of digital information and digital resources. The book is organised around themes, rather than theories. The book is arranged into three sections: culture, society and the individual. Each explores key elements of the social, cultural and political impact of digital information. The culture section outlines the origins of cyberculture in fifties pulp-fiction through to the modern day. It explores the issues of information overload, the threat of a digital dark age, and the criminal underbelly of digital culture. Section two, society, explores the economic and social impact of digital information, outlining key theorist of the Information Age. Section three explores the impact of digital information and digital resources on the individual, exploring the changing nature of identity in a digital world.Key Features Written by a leading author in the field The focus on digital information and its social, cultural and political impact is unique The wider theoretical framework, relying less of sociology, more on cultural theory The Author Luke Tredinnick is a Senior Lecturer in Information Management at London Metropolitan University and Course Director for the MSc on Digital Information Management. He teaches on a wide range of topics around the digital information area, including digital libraries, intranets and extranets, knowledge applications and technologies, cyberculture, and the social, political and theoretical aspects of digital information. He is the author of Why Intranets Fail (and How to Fix Them), also published by Chandos Publishing. Readership Information management academics and students; information management professionals; allied academic fields, such as cultural studies, communications studies and media studies.Contents Part one: culture and technology The meaning of culture Representations of technology Narratives of technology and culture Part two: digital information culture Textuality Authenticity Knowledge Power Identity Memory Epilogue: culture and tradition References Index