COMM 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Digital Rights Management, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon
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Information society theorists: claude shannon - bell labs 1949. Information is measured by choosing message from all possible messages. Information can be treated as a physical quality. Follows laws of efficiency: norbert weiner. Communication information internally (within system: daniel bell. Rate of change marks shift from past. Science becomes corporate; activities tied to profits. Social scientists generate demand: creation of new intellectual technology. Computer modeling to solve economic and social problems. Society is open and indeterminate: change from goods to services as basis of economy. End of corporate paternalism: information as a commodity. Convergence of media: print/visual: proliferating technology and interconnectedness. U. s. as exempt from history: lack of historical context. Globalization of financial markets: increased control of labor. Creating value for digital information: scarcity, gatekeeping - barriers to entry, control of content, technology (digital rights management) Life of the author plus 70 years. Works for hire (corporate) to 95 years.