The Politics of Technology
If anyone can tell me what this long-winded sentence means, then they can sit my exam for Politics of Technology, tomorrow.
Thanks ;)
"Now information has come to denote something that is supposed to be an essential aspect of life in a modern society. This shift to a much more general meaning of information corresponds to the dispersion of Benthamite utilitarian epistemology and related methodologies of individuation and social control, but it was prompted by applied mathematicians' success with code-cracking during the Second World War and then the discovery of DNA in 1951."
My reading was that it is talking about cybercitizenship leading to the exclusion and withholding of information such as code-cracking, which is mentioned, to achieve a type of repressive social control.
Jeremy out
Thanks ;)
"Now information has come to denote something that is supposed to be an essential aspect of life in a modern society. This shift to a much more general meaning of information corresponds to the dispersion of Benthamite utilitarian epistemology and related methodologies of individuation and social control, but it was prompted by applied mathematicians' success with code-cracking during the Second World War and then the discovery of DNA in 1951."
My reading was that it is talking about cybercitizenship leading to the exclusion and withholding of information such as code-cracking, which is mentioned, to achieve a type of repressive social control.
Jeremy out