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Trouble with Culture : How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars.
Title:
Trouble with Culture : How Computers Are Calming the Culture Wars.
Author:
Hanson, F. Allan.
ISBN:
9780791480441
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (204 pages)
Contents:
THE TROUBLE WITH CULTURE -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Z.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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