TY - BOOK ID - 61117004 TI - Digital information culture : the individual and society in the digital age PY - 2008 SN - 1780631677 1843341700 1843341603 9781780631677 9781843341604 9781843341703 PB - Oxford, England : Chandos Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Information technology KW - Information society. KW - Computers and civilization. KW - Social aspects. KW - Civilization and computers KW - Civilization KW - Sociology KW - Information superhighway KW - Information society KW - Computers and civilization KW - Social aspects KW - Information technology - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61117004 AB - Digital Information Culture 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 and 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 cyber culture 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 cult ER -