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Author: Achal Mehra Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This history of the free flow of information begins with an examination of the role and responsibility of international information and permissible restraints on freedom in a free society. The author traces the development of freedom of expression, examines its applicability to international information and the evolution of its fundamental principles in the United Nations. He also analyzes the problems and challenges this freedom poses to societies, and the validity of criticisms against prevailing information structures. He concludes with practical steps the United States could take to establish a new paradigm of free flow of information. These recommendations seek to draw a delicate balance between fundamental libertarian principles, societal concerns, and global realities. ISBN 0-313-25235-1 : $32.95.
Author: Achal Mehra Publisher: Praeger ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
This history of the free flow of information begins with an examination of the role and responsibility of international information and permissible restraints on freedom in a free society. The author traces the development of freedom of expression, examines its applicability to international information and the evolution of its fundamental principles in the United Nations. He also analyzes the problems and challenges this freedom poses to societies, and the validity of criticisms against prevailing information structures. He concludes with practical steps the United States could take to establish a new paradigm of free flow of information. These recommendations seek to draw a delicate balance between fundamental libertarian principles, societal concerns, and global realities. ISBN 0-313-25235-1 : $32.95.
Author: Diana Lemberg Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231544030 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 335
Book Description
Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States’ First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the “free flow of information,” showing how the push for global media access acted as a vehicle for American power. Barriers Down considers debates over civil liberties and censorship in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and elsewhere alongside Americans’ efforts to circumvent foreign regulatory systems in the quest to expand markets and bring their ideas to new publics. Lemberg shows how in the decades following the Second World War American free-flow policies reshaped the world’s information landscape, though not always as intended. Through burgeoning information diplomacy and development aid, Washington diffused new media ranging from television and satellite broadcasting to global English. But these actions also spurred overseas actors to articulate alternative understandings of information freedom and of how information flows might be regulated. Bridging the historiographies of the United States in the world, human rights, decolonization and development, and media and technology, Barriers Down excavates the analog roots of digital-age debates over the politics and ethics of transnational information flows.
Author: Jon Barwise Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316582663 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 292
Book Description
Information is a central topic in computer science, cognitive science and philosophy. In spite of its importance in the 'information age', there is no consensus on what information is, what makes it possible, and what it means for one medium to carry information about another. Drawing on ideas from mathematics, computer science and philosophy, this book addresses the definition and place of information in society. The authors, observing that information flow is possible only within a connected distribution system, provide a mathematically rigorous, philosophically sound foundation for a science of information. They illustrate their theory by applying it to a wide range of phenomena, from file transfer to DNA, from quantum mechanics to speech act theory.
Author: Fred I. Dretske Publisher: Mit Press ISBN: 9780262540384 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 288
Book Description
What distinguishes clever computers from stupid people (besides their components)? The author of Seeing and Knowing presents in his new book a beautifully and persuasively written interdisciplinary approach to traditional problems--a clearsighted interpretation of information theory.Psychologists, biologists, computer scientists, and those seeking a general unified picture of perceptual-cognitive activity will find this provocative reading.The problems Dretske addresses in Knowledge and the Flow of Information--What is knowledge? How are the sensory and cognitive processes related? What makes mental activities mental?--appeal to a wide audience. The conceptual tools used to deal with these questions (information, noise, analog versus digital coding, etc.) are designed to make contact with, and exploit the findings of, empirical work in the cognitive sciences. A concept of information is developed, one deriving from (but not identical with) the Shannon idea familiar to communication theorists, in terms of which the analyses of knowledge, perception, learning, and meaning are expressed.The book is materialistic in spirit--that is, spiritedly materialistic--devoted to the view that mental states and processes are merely special ways physical systems have of processing, coding, and using information.
Author: Andreas Jungherr Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108419402 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 337
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Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.
Author: Mário S. Alvim Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3319961314 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 478
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive mathematical theory that explains precisely what information flow is, how it can be assessed quantitatively – so bringing precise meaning to the intuition that certain information leaks are small enough to be tolerated – and how systems can be constructed that achieve rigorous, quantitative information-flow guarantees in those terms. It addresses the fundamental challenge that functional and practical requirements frequently conflict with the goal of preserving confidentiality, making perfect security unattainable. Topics include: a systematic presentation of how unwanted information flow, i.e., "leaks", can be quantified in operationally significant ways and then bounded, both with respect to estimated benefit for an attacking adversary and by comparisons between alternative implementations; a detailed study of capacity, refinement, and Dalenius leakage, supporting robust leakage assessments; a unification of information-theoretic channels and information-leaking sequential programs within the same framework; and a collection of case studies, showing how the theory can be applied to interesting realistic scenarios. The text is unified, self-contained and comprehensive, accessible to students and researchers with some knowledge of discrete probability and undergraduate mathematics, and contains exercises to facilitate its use as a course textbook.
Author: Emily Rosenberg Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780809001460 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 274
Book Description
In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.
Author: Manuel Bremer Publisher: Walter de Gruyter ISBN: 3110323605 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 244
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This book is conceived as an introductory text into the theory of syntactic and semantic information, and information flow. Syntactic information theory is concerned with the information contained in the very fact that some signal has a non-random structure. Semantic information theory is concerned with the meaning or information content of messages and the like. The theory of information flow is concerned with deriving some piece of information from another. The main part will take us to situation semantics as a foundation of modern approaches in information theory. We give a brief overview of the background theory and then explain the concepts of information, information architecture and information flow from that perspective.
Author: UNESCO Publisher: UNESCO Publishing ISBN: 9231042564 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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Water is an essential resource for mankind and our ecosystems. Free Flow is a fully illustrated book with over 100 authors work on water management and cooperation at international, regional, national, municipal and local levels. Their commentaries draw upon experiences around the world, reflecting how people are changing their interaction with water to improve sustainable development. The publication reflects progresses and challenges in these fields, highlighting good practices in a wide variety of societies and disciplines. The book strives to project experiences into future actions and encourages further institutional commitments to better understanding of and more effective management of water cooperation in order to achieve sustainable development.
Author: Achal Mehra
Author: Achal Mehra
Author: Diana Lemberg
Author: Jon Barwise
Author: Fred I. Dretske
Author: Andreas Jungherr
Author: Mário S. Alvim
Author: Emily Rosenberg
Author: American Library Association
Author: Manuel Bremer
Author: UNESCO