In response to the perceived (by some) onset of an information
society, historians have begun to study its roots and antecedents.
The past is replete with the rise, fall, and transformation of systems
of information, which are not to be confused with the narrower computer-
mediated world of information systems. The history of systems
of information—which for digestibility can be labeled information
history—lacks neither scale nor scope. Systems of information have
played a critical role in the transition to, and subsequent development
of, capitalism; the growth of the state, especially the modern,
nation-state; the rise of modernity, science, and the public sphere;
imperialism; and geopolitics. In the context of these epochal shifts
and episodes in human thinking and social organization, this essay
presents a critical bibliographic survey of histories—outside the
well-trodden paths of library and information-science history—that
have foregrounded, or made reference to, a wide variety of systems
of information.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
ISSN
1559-0682
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89724
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2014.0009
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