The sacralization of information
Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2011, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
The objective of the article is to describe some parts of the process of "regarding as sacred of the information " which was set up in the middle of the XXth century, within the cybernetics. It is also a question of showing that this original marking strongly influenced the speech which accompagnies the new technologies
Authors and Affiliations
Philippe BRETON| Professeur des universités, Université de Strasbourg, UMR CNRS « Cultures et Sociétés en Europe », France
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