History of the Information Age – Page 73 – A Spring 2025 Honors History Seminar

Introductions to the Information Age

January 20, 2019

Of the selected introductions to the Information Age, I read the introduction from the book Media Technology and Society, A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet and the introduction from The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age. The first introduction creates the idea that the Information Age as a concept is the next step in the continued evolution of human communication, creating the idea of a “social sphere” that is affected …

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Where Does the Information Age Begin?

January 20, 2019

After reading the introduction in Information by James Gleik, Claude Shannon is held in high regard as the one who coined the term bit. A unit of measuring information. As a gifted mathematician and engineer, he assembled the Theory of Information and created a baseline of vocabulary to describe its use and function, a term …

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Advice from Back to The Future: Info Age 2014

January 20, 2019

I like the idea suggested to Develop a propaganda campaign or film from the 2014 class. Information moves past us in the media so quickly that we don’t vet it and most times accept whatever we read as truth or fact, when more and more it is …

Grog figures out what Hypothes.is is is is!

January 18, 2019

Me learning how to use Hypothes.is

Reading Responses 1/17/19

January 18, 2019

I chose to read James Gleick’s ‘The Information’ and Ronald Kline’s ‘The Cybernetics Monument’ to gain a better understanding of the topics we will be discussing this semester. Personally, I preferred Gleick’s approach to Kline’s when discussing the information age as a whole. This was in part due to the

About Me

January 18, 2019

Hello! My name is Mckenzie Dowdy and I am a senior at the University of Mary Washington. I am a history major from Virginia Beach, Virginia. I decided to take History of the Information Age because the class did not seem like the typical 400 level seminar. So far the history classes I have taken …

History of the Information Age: Hello World!

January 17, 2019

My name is Sean McGrath, and I am a student in Dr. McClurken’s History of the Information Age class (HIST 427). I am a history major, and I am in the 5-year Master’s in Education Program, and am a senior. I am interested in learning about what historians in modern times consider to be historically …

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Reaction to Article Intros

January 17, 2019

In the introduction to the reading, Media Technology and Society-A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet by Brian Winston, the author explained that the concept of a sudden “information revolution” in the modern era is incorrect. Instead, patterns of new technological advancements have existed across history and share certain characteristics in terms of timing

1/17/2019

January 17, 2019

Hi there! My name is Maddie Ullestad and this is my first blog post for Hist 427: History of the Information Age. I am from Williamsburg, Va. I am a senior pursing degrees in History and Elementary Education. I am very excited to be taking this class….

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January 17, 2019