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OverviewHow the computer revolution can ease polarization and help calm the culture wars. Full Product DetailsAuthor: F. Allan HansonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.417kg ISBN: 9780791470176ISBN 10: 0791470172 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 08 February 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock  The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments 1. Culture Gone Bad Culture Social and Cultural Evolution Open and Closed Culture Automation: A Preview An Overview 2. Cultural Contradiction and Compartmentalization Culture Wars Poverty: From Making a Difference to Indifference The Divisive Effects of Automation 3. Fixing the Trouble with Culture: Relativism, Postmodernism, and Automation Cultural Relativism Postmodernism Automation 4. The Human Rage to Classify Classifying Classification by Correspondence Taxonomic Classification The Contrasting Logics of Correspondence and Taxonomy 5. Classification and the Common Law Legal Information ""Common-placing"" Supply-Side Control versus an ""Appalling Glut"" Key Numbers Implications Conclusion 6. Automated Classification and Indexing Classifying and Indexing How Automated Indexing Works Can Artificial Intelligence Classify? Can Artificial Intelligence Create Classificatory Schemes? 7. The Automated Mode in Principle Internet Communication, Hypertext, and Automated Searching Focused Searching Open-Ended Searching 8. The Automated Mode in Practice Automation and the Law Scholarly Research and Education Business and Manufacturing 9. The New Superorganic Decentering the Individual The New Superorganic 10. Opening Culture, Expanding Individuals Notes Bibliography Index"ReviewsNot only does the book forge new interdisciplinary ties, but it does so by moving effortlessly between theoretical discussions and empirical observations. The reader is constantly aware of the cultural stakes of learning to think more flexibly about our own humanity and our human ability to give the world structure and meaning. Hanson clearly cares about the topic under review and that sincerity is conveyed throughout. -- Evan Selinger Hanson's The Trouble with Culture is an illuminating look into how culture and automation are interconnected ... Hanson has much of interest to share. - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute Hanson's book is best read as a provocative case of how a technology is changing the conditions under which we think and act. The argument is accessible and should be of interest to technologists and social scientists who are interested in how AIM can, quite apart from its content, have a significant impact on society ... Hanson raises questions about the relationships between culture, technology and individual agency that are both significant and thought-provoking. - Information, Communication & Society ...undeniably fresh, fascinating, and provocative. - American Journal of Sociology For all readers who ponder the potential beneficial impacts of information technology. - CHOICE Not only does the book forge new interdisciplinary ties, but it does so by moving effortlessly between theoretical discussions and empirical observations. The reader is constantly aware of the cultural stakes of learning to think more flexibly about our own humanity and our human ability to give the world structure and meaning. Hanson clearly cares about the topic under review and that sincerity is conveyed throughout. - Evan Selinger, editor of Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde This book is a treasure, repaying readers with thoughtful analyses and provocative topics. Hanson weaves together two significant issues: on the one hand, he provides a valuable treatise on cultural theory; on the other hand, he unpacks a set of issues crucial to contemporary life. - C. Richard King, coauthor of Beyond the Cheers: Race as Spectacle in College Sport Author InformationF. Allan Hanson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Kansas and the author of several books, including Testing Testing: Social Consequences of the Examined Life. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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