The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society

By J. Beniger. 1986

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Interpreting e-government and development: Efficiency, transparency or governance at a distance? (2005, background): “technologies of control (Beninger, 1986) able to shape the networks and systems of”
The Long Now of Technology Infrastructure: Articulating Tensions in Development (2009, background): “Following from this, James Beniger (1986) argued that administrative units of commerce and governance formed around the integration of a national territory and emergence of a single market (through rail and then telegraph).”
Scrutinizing an algorithmic technique: the Bayes classifier as interested reading of reality (2017, background): “But the application of calculation to practical matters and, in particular, to the management of increasing organizational size and complexity (Beniger, 1986) has a long history that culminates in the emergence of statistics as the predominant way to look at and act in a world seen as dynamic and…”
New games, new rules: big data and the changing context of strategy (2015, background): “…matter of data volume and diversity, as well as speed of data growth, it would have most probably continued a long tradition of data collection, generation and use, and the statistical methods and techniques by which large and diverse data volumes have been dealt with (Beniger, 1986; Porter, 1995).”
Deep transitions: Emergence, acceleration, stabilization and directionality (2018, unknown): “…environment in which these systems reside has received somewhat less attention in comparison: relevant approaches include the Control Revolution thesis (Beniger, 1986), Eras of Technology concept (Misa, 2004), and the Techno-economic Paradigm (TEP) framework (Freeman and Louçã, 2001; Perez, 2002).”
Beyond the 'digital natives' debate: Towards a more nuanced understanding of students' technology experiences (2010, background): “Beniger (1986) Fundamental social change, for example, has been variously described as creating a status society, service society, postindustrial society, postmodern society, knowledge society, and so on.”
Understanding modern transparency (2009, methodology): “This perspective is based on James Beniger (1986), Anthony Giddens (1991), Michel Foucault (1977) and Paul Frissen (1999).”
Historical coevolution of governance and technology in the industrial revolutions (2003, background): “In regard to the heuristics of control, simply put, the objective of a hierarchy would seem to be acquiring more and more control (Beniger, 1986).”