Download or read book The Filing Cabinet written by Craig Robertson and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-05-25 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.
Download or read book Modern Filing Manual written by Estelle Belle Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Filing Manual written by Estelle Belle Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Filing Manual written by David Walter Duffield and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Office Appliances The Magazine of Office Equipment written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Filing Methods written by Margaret Antoinette Lennig and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How We Became Our Data written by Colin Koopman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come to be so integral to what we can do? How did we become people who effortlessly present our lives in social media profiles and who are meticulously recorded in state surveillance dossiers and online marketing databases? What is the story behind data coming to matter so much to who we are? In How We Became Our Data, Colin Koopman excavates early moments of our rapidly accelerating data-tracking technologies and their consequences for how we think of and express our selfhood today. Koopman explores the emergence of mass-scale record keeping systems like birth certificates and social security numbers, as well as new data techniques for categorizing personality traits, measuring intelligence, and even racializing subjects. This all culminates in what Koopman calls the “informational person” and the “informational power” we are now subject to. The recent explosion of digital technologies that are turning us into a series of algorithmic data points is shown to have a deeper and more turbulent past than we commonly think. Blending philosophy, history, political theory, and media theory in conversation with thinkers like Michel Foucault, Jürgen Habermas, and Friedrich Kittler, Koopman presents an illuminating perspective on how we have come to think of our personhood—and how we can resist its erosion.
Download or read book FSH written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Subject Guide to Communication Informatics and Librarianship in India written by S. P. Agrawal and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spurious Coin written by Bernadette Longo and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-05-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spurious Coin constructs a cultural history of technical writing in the United States and the system of scientific knowledge and power it controls. Embedded in this history are tensions between scientific and liberal arts knowledge-making that render technical writing both the genuine and counterfeit coin of scientific knowledge within our culture. When scientific knowledge is made by scientists and engineers, it can circulate as genuine currency in an economy where communication makes knowledge. When scientific knowledge is made by liberal-arts trained technical writers, however, it circulates as spurious currency and threatens the purity of the knowledge economy. Because the stability of the scientific knowledge economy is at stake, scientists and technical writers often find themselves at odds over the value of scientific knowledge minted by non-scientists. Longo constructs this cultural history around a framework of five intellectual trends: the use of clear, correct English; maximum efficiency of production and operation; the need to contribute to a general fund of scientific knowledge for the betterment of the human condition; the tension between the role of science and art within a culture; and a redemptive urge to purify language and standardize practice. She also explores the role of mechanical engineers in designing management systems which rely on technical writing to control operations and profits.
Download or read book Filing written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
