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Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

Promiscuous Knowledge( )
Author: Cmiel, Kenneth
Peters, John Durham
ISBN:978-0-226-61185-3
Publication Date:Feb 2020
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $62.95
Book Description:

Sergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in news, maps, weather, and porn indifferently. This book, begun by the late Kenneth Cmiel and completed by his close friend John Durham Peters, provides a genealogy of the information age from its early origins up to the reign of Google. It examines how we think about fact, image, and knowledge,...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Sociology / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):1.63 x 2.3 x 0.26 cm
Book Weight:0.604 Kilograms



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