Change of State: Information, Policy, and Power

by Sandra Braman

Book Overview

How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy in the U.S., an innovator informational state.

As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513242
• ISBN13: 9780262513241
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher