The control revolution: Technological and economic origins of the information society

By A. Debons, Frederick J. Kohun. 1990

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Critical data studies: An introduction (2016, background): “, 2010), multiple data subjects and their rights (Haraway, 1991; Jones, 2016), deep information histories (Beniger, 1989), work and power (Zuboff, 1988), and hybrid digital cultures (Striphas, 2016) that underpin it.”
The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? (2017, background): “While the typewriter was invented in the 1860s, it was not introduced in the office until the early twentieth century, when it entered a wave of mechanisation, with dictaphones, calculators, mimeo machines, address machines, and the predecessor of the computer – the keypunch (Beniger, 1986; Cortada,”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “483 communication as a dynamic, complex form of dominion, in which responses to management could be reduced to feedback for eliciting control adjustments (Beniger 1986).”
Current trends in Smart City initiatives: some stylised facts (2014, unknown): “Specifically, the diffusion of Internet access and the use of Internet-based services among the local population represent a relevant proxy of the development of an Information Society (Beniger, 1986) and, as such, they can facilitate the enactment of smart initiatives in many urban settings.”
Algorithmic Labor and Information Asymmetries: A Case Study of Uber’s Drivers (2016, unknown): “This business model is rooted in Taylorist traditions of using worker monitoring to identify and create new efficiencies in workflows (Beniger, 1989; Zureik, 2003).”
Understanding the Complex Dynamics of Transparency (2013, background): “…because transparency is regarded as a core value of the new information and communication technologies that are now growing exponentially in use (Beniger 1986; Meijer 2009; Nora and Minc 1980; Welch and Wong 2001), these new technologies are challenging historical traditions and bureaucratic…”
A review of sociotechnical systems theory: a classic concept for new command and control paradigms (2008, background): “In virtually all developed civilisations the recent history in organisational design is wedded to a shared ‘industrial age’ mindset (Beringer 1986), one that forms the backdrop to both sociotechnical systems and NEC, and one that can be explained with reference to a deeper, more fundamental concept.”
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment (2009, background): “…Industrial Revolution to the present as an ongoing " control revolution " in which societies responded to mass production, distribution, and consumption with both technological and organizational changes, designed to manage ever-increasing flows of goods, services, and information (Beniger, 1986).”
Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges (2016, unknown): “…can be seen as the natural next step in the evolution from the “Information Age” and “Information Societies” (in the sense of Bell, 1973; Masuda, 1980; Beniger, 1986; Castells, 2009; Peres and Hilbert, 2010; ITU, 2014) to “Knowledge Societies”: building on the digital infrastructure that led to…”
Understanding Infrastructure: Dynamics, Tensions, and Design (2007, background): “James Beniger described the entire period from the first Industrial Revolution to the present as an ongoing “control revolution” in which societies responded to mass production, distribution, and consumption with both technological and organizational changes, designed to manage ever-increasing flows”
Technological transitions as evolutionary reconfiguration processes: a multi-level perspective and a case-study (2002, background): “…of information, e.g. journals of prices (1795), commercial newspapers (c. 1815), mercantile libraries (1820), trade journals (1831), ship-to-shore semaphore systems (1830s), agencies for advertising (1841), and credit report books distributed by subscription (1844) (Beniger, 1986, pp. 200–201).”
Algorithmic Cultures : Essays on Meaning, Performance and New Technologies (2016, background): “…products: “Simultaneously with the development of mass communication by the turn of the century came what might be called mass feedback technologies” (Beniger 1989, 376) These companies sought increasingly sophisticated versions of sales data, including circulation numbers for newspapers and…”
Understanding modern transparency (2009, methodology): “This perspective is based on James Beniger (1986), Anthony Giddens (1991), Michel Foucault (1977) and Paul Frissen (1999).”
Algorithmic culture (2015, background): “The latter helped precipitate another great transformation referred to variously as the computer revolution, the communications revolution, the cybernetics revolution and so on (Beniger, 1986: 4–5).”