Information Technologies and Social Orders
In: Communication and social order
Introduction and action: An introduction to Carl Couch's analysis of information technologies / David R. Maines and Shing-Ling Chen -- Introduction -- Orality -- Decoratons and depictions -- Extending temporal structures -- Numeric and spatial concepts -- Bureaucratic structures -- Written languages -- Printing books -- Newspapers and state structures -- Telecommunications: overcoming space -- Recorded sounds and sights -- Broadcasting sounds and sights -- Information-processing machines -- Knowledge centers -- Oh, what webs those phantoms spin.
