The Control Revolution
Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3493249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joanne Yates |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 370 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The control revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society, James R Beniger, 1986 |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/204713 |
| OpenAlex | W2141010452 |
| Language | EN |
1. Introduction PART I: Living Systems, Technology, and the Evolution of Control 2. Programming and Control: The Essential Life Process 3. Evolution of Control: Culture and Society PART II: Industrialization, Processing Speed, and the Crisis of control 4. From tradition to rationally: Distributing Control 5. Toward Industrialization: Controlling Energy and Speed 6. Industrial Revolution and the Crisis of Control PART III: Toward an Information Society: From Control Crisis to Control Revolution 7. Revolution in Control of Mass Production and Distribution 8. Revolution in Control of Mass Consumption 9. Revolution in Generalized Control: Data Processing and Bureaucracy 10. Conclusions: Control as Engine of the Information Society References Index
Control (management) · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Information revolution · Information society · Management · Political science · Sociology · Technological revolution · Economic Development and Digital Transformation
The Influence of Print on Social and Cultural Change
Management Tools
Challenges, Opportunities and Future Directions of Smart Manufacturing
On Building Theory From the Inside Out
Competing Frameworks for Research on Information-Communication Technologies and Society
Capitalism, Information, and Uneven Development
Organizational Coordination and Communication
How Technology Is Changing Work and Organizations
Disruption and low-carbon system transformation
Toward feminist energy systems
What Happens When You Push This
Out of Control
A Framework for Understanding Information Ecosystems in Firms and Industries
Information in an Industrial Culture
The Value Proposition of the Corporate Library, Past and Present
Everyday Life as a Text
Big Data and the brave new world of social media research
Big data
Power, Media Culture and New Media
Tomorrow begins yesterday
Revisiting the Distinctive Features of the Information Society’s Technological Structure
From Mass Production to Mass Collaboration
Security of energy services and uses within urban households
Travailleurs de l'écrit, matières de l'information
Of sorcerers and thought leaders
How are we now? Real-time mood-monitoring as valuation
When Critical Voices Should Speak Up
On paper, on air, on screen
Control and transformation in early visual culture
The Medical Council in Belgian hospitals
Time as a periodization of management practices
Hardt and Negri’s Information Empire
The Environmentalitarian Situation
Why don't they listen to us? Reasserting the role of ICT in Public Administration
Coping with Complexity
Join the Club
China’s Information and Communication Technology in Geographic Perspective
Defining the Sensor Society
Negotiation and Resistance in Global Networks
The Rural-Urban Gap in Community Newspaper Editors' Use of Information Technologies
Soviet Policy Sciences and Earth System Governmentality
Woven of War-Time Fabrics
Consumer Databases, Neoliberalism, and the Commercial Mediation of Identity
On the 'Pre-History of The Panoptic Sort
Surveillance and Mobilities
Breaking the Time Barrier
Technologies of trust
Putting Consumers to Work
Who Controls the Internet? Beyond the Obstinacy or Obsolescence of the State
Technology Transfers and Organization
Viewing Corporations as Information Ecosystems
And lead us not into thinking the new is new
Interfacing data destinations and visualizations
Porting the political campaign
Audience manufacture in historical perspective
Durkheim and Weber on the social implications of new information and communication technologies
An exploration of skill as an issue in unemployment and employment
Managing the future
The Information Society as Mega-Machine
The Information Society
Elements of surveillance
Faces and charts
Playing at work
Preparing for information‐age conflict
F. W. Taylor and the legacies of systemization
Capital, knowledge and ownership
The Virtual University as 'Timely and Accurate Information'
Nineteenth-Century Telegraphy
Studying the Social History of Telecommunications
Contemporary Technology Discourse and the Legitimation of Capitalism
Anti-equivalence
The return of social government
Living in the control society
All things are in contact’
Border formations
Transforming power/knowledge apparatuses
Innovation as Social Action
Europeanization and the retreat of the state
Soft Sister and the Rationalization of the World
Tools for Collaboration
Foundations of Theory in PRC History
Dreams for Our Perceptual Present
The politics of a paradigm shift
Theatres of Control
The Information Revolution and the New Public Management
We Are Borg
Is Comparative Communication Theory Possible/Desirable
Classical Democracy, Polls, and Public Opinion
A Liar’s Epistemology
Public Domain and the New World Order in Knowledge
Constructing Asian values
Anticipating federation
Broken by Design
Information systems and urbanization in South Asia
On two AI traditions
New technology and the limits of Luddism
The computer metaphor
New York Prophecies
Making Liberal Objects
Computational Coordination Mechanisms
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