Artigo Revisado por pares

The "Value Added" in Editorial Acquisitions.pdf

1999; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 30; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

1710-1166

Autores

Sanford G. Thatcher,

Tópico(s)

Digital Communication and Language

Resumo

When in 1964 Canadian social theorist Marshall McLuhan declared that “it is a principal aspect of the electric age that it establishes a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system,” the word “Internet” was not yet part of our popular lexicon. But already McLuhan had foreseen the revolutionary impact of networked computer technology: “Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. Electric power, equally available in the farmhouse and the Executive Suite, permits any place to be a center, and does not require large aggregations.” (1)

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