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Preface; Contents; About the Authors; Chapter 1: Technology, Communication, Power, Society, and Change; 1.1 Introductory Concepts; 1.2 What Is "Technology"?; 1.3 Three Views of "Technology," Plus One; 1.4 Three Kinds of Technology: Physical, Biological, and Social; 1.5 Three Aspects of Technology: Hardware, Software, and Orgware; 1.6 Six Phases of the Technological Life-Cycle; 1.7 The Scope of Technology: Single Technologies, Clusters of Technologies, Levels of Technologies; 1.8 Six Eras of Social Organization; 1.9 Technology, Social Change, and Age-Cohort/Generational Analysis
1.10 Perspectives on Power and Technology1.11 What Is Communication?; 1.12 What Is "Society" and What Is "Social Change"?; 1.13 But Does Society Change? What Is Change and What Is Stability?; 1.14 What Is "Cause"?; References; Chapter 2: Communication Technologies and Power Relations in Five Historical Periods; 2.1 Language, Speech, and Power; 2.2 Governance and Power in Oral Societies; 2.3 Governance and Power in Scribal Societies: Tallies, Tokens, and Thought; 2.3.1 The Emergence of Writing and the Transformation of Oral Societies; 2.3.2 A Note on Women, Literacy, and Power
2.3.3 A Note on the Korean Alphabet and the Redistribution of Power2.4 The Printing Press, Governance, and Power; 2.4.1 Printing, Power, and Islam; 2.4.2 Note on Printing in China and Korea; 2.4.3 The Printing Press, Constitutionalism, and Logo Fundamentalism; References; Chapter 3: Communication Technologies and Power Relations, from Electricity to Electronics; 3.1 Electronic Communications and Power Relations; 3.2 From Electricity to Electronics; 3.3 Moving Pictures; 3.4 Computers; 3.5 The End of Authority?; 3.6 Which Medium Gave the Biggest Massage?
3.7 Age-Cohort Analysis and Technological/Social Change3.7.1 Agricultural era Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Still Persist in the United States; 3.7.2 Industrial Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Linger; 3.7.3 Information Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Shape Lives ; References; Chapter 4: Communication Technology in the Extended Present and Futures; 4.1 What's Next?; 4.1.1 Life in "Real Time": Temporality and Visibility in the Internet Age; 4.1.2 Access and Points of Control; 4.1.3 Ubiquitous Society: Surveillance Society; 4.1.4 From Al Capone to Al Gore to Al Gorithm
4.1.5 Networked Resistance and Control in the Twenty-First Century4.2 The Arab Spring, Occupy, and Others: Social Media and Revolution; 4.2.1 Amorphous Resistance: Anonymous; 4.2.2 The Myth of the "Wireless" World; 4.2.3 Control: Crock Pots and Child Porn; 4.2.4 Impacts of Electronic Technologies on Thinking and Being ; References; Chapter 5: Alternative Futures at the Mānoa School; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Seven Driving Forces Matrix; 5.3 The Unholy Trinity, Plus One; 5.4 Emerging Issues Analysis; 5.4.1 The Life Cycle of an Emerging Issue; 5.5 Some Horizon Scan Hits, Circa 2012-2014
1.10 Perspectives on Power and Technology1.11 What Is Communication?; 1.12 What Is "Society" and What Is "Social Change"?; 1.13 But Does Society Change? What Is Change and What Is Stability?; 1.14 What Is "Cause"?; References; Chapter 2: Communication Technologies and Power Relations in Five Historical Periods; 2.1 Language, Speech, and Power; 2.2 Governance and Power in Oral Societies; 2.3 Governance and Power in Scribal Societies: Tallies, Tokens, and Thought; 2.3.1 The Emergence of Writing and the Transformation of Oral Societies; 2.3.2 A Note on Women, Literacy, and Power
2.3.3 A Note on the Korean Alphabet and the Redistribution of Power2.4 The Printing Press, Governance, and Power; 2.4.1 Printing, Power, and Islam; 2.4.2 Note on Printing in China and Korea; 2.4.3 The Printing Press, Constitutionalism, and Logo Fundamentalism; References; Chapter 3: Communication Technologies and Power Relations, from Electricity to Electronics; 3.1 Electronic Communications and Power Relations; 3.2 From Electricity to Electronics; 3.3 Moving Pictures; 3.4 Computers; 3.5 The End of Authority?; 3.6 Which Medium Gave the Biggest Massage?
3.7 Age-Cohort Analysis and Technological/Social Change3.7.1 Agricultural era Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Still Persist in the United States; 3.7.2 Industrial Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Linger; 3.7.3 Information Metaphors, Institutions, and Values Shape Lives ; References; Chapter 4: Communication Technology in the Extended Present and Futures; 4.1 What's Next?; 4.1.1 Life in "Real Time": Temporality and Visibility in the Internet Age; 4.1.2 Access and Points of Control; 4.1.3 Ubiquitous Society: Surveillance Society; 4.1.4 From Al Capone to Al Gore to Al Gorithm
4.1.5 Networked Resistance and Control in the Twenty-First Century4.2 The Arab Spring, Occupy, and Others: Social Media and Revolution; 4.2.1 Amorphous Resistance: Anonymous; 4.2.2 The Myth of the "Wireless" World; 4.2.3 Control: Crock Pots and Child Porn; 4.2.4 Impacts of Electronic Technologies on Thinking and Being ; References; Chapter 5: Alternative Futures at the Mānoa School; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The Seven Driving Forces Matrix; 5.3 The Unholy Trinity, Plus One; 5.4 Emerging Issues Analysis; 5.4.1 The Life Cycle of an Emerging Issue; 5.5 Some Horizon Scan Hits, Circa 2012-2014