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Modernity and Technology Edited by Thomas J. Misa, Philip Brey and Andrew Feenberg The MIT Press Cambridge, MA and London 2003 xxiii, 415 pp. ISBN 0-262-13421-7 US$42.00
Keywords Libraries, Information, Technology led strategy, Modernism, Philosophy
Review DOI 10.1108/00242530410544457
The relationship between modern and postmodern culture and the technologies which sustain it is complex and controversial. Both the academic information scientist and the practising information manager or librarian need some insights into it if they are to have some conceptual understanding of the framework within which both the discipline and the related professions actually operate. An understanding of how technology and society inter-relate cannot be achieved from a single disciplinary background. Sociologists, anthropologists, communication scientists, media specialists and even information and computer scientists have distinctive contributions to make, not least to one another's understanding of their own disciplines. The papers in the book - originally delivered at a conference held at the University of Twente in The Netherlands in 1999 -...