Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 23:44:29 CST
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET>
Subject: Documenting Rigged & Deadly Cultural Context of Info Age


FINS SPECIAL REPORT                                            MARCH 7, 1994
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FINS INFORMATION AGE LIBRARY ADDITIONS
Documenting the Rigged & Deadly Cultural
Context of the Emerging Information Age

Washington, DC--Fins Information Age Lib will release, Mar 8, 1994, a new
online directory: Periodicals_and_Newspapers.  This directory will contain
thoughtful, thorough, and provocative articles of special relevance to the
emerging Information Age.  In this undertaking, Fins intends to track the
antidemocratic propaganda model of the mass media developed by American
business that has been discussed by writers during the last half of the
twentieth century (Arendt, 1950; Lindblom, 1977; Herman & Chomski, 1988).
Special emphasis will be placed on the technological imperative of the
Information Age now being pursued by the "one-eyed prophets" of the
Clinton-Gore Administration, which threaten totalitarian dangers of the
"Technopoly" described by communications critic Postman (1992).  Finally,
articles that discuss alternative possibilities that can sustain and enhance
democracy will also be highlighted.

        The articles now presented in the Periodicals_and_Newspapers directory
disclose the rigged and lopsided competition of core ideas, and deadly
cultural context of the emerging Information Age.  In addition to several
articles previously released in electronic format there are two articles new
to the Internet.  This includes a three-part series on "The Capital and
Capitol Hill," written by Vigdor Schreibman, which describes the core values
and systemic foundation for soaring youth homicide in the United States,
nested in an economic system with undue reliance placed upon the ethic of
profit maximization, guided by narrow individualism and the morality of the
marketplace.  The directory also contains an original article by Schreibman
on, "Preservation of an American Heritage," which discusses the conflict
between technology and the preservation of America's cultural
heritage.  The article was originally scheduled for publication by
Washington's HILL RAG, Mar 4, 1994, but was killed without
explanation. It is now included online in
Fins_Information_Age/Periodicals_and_Newspapers/Fins-PaN-05.

        Now included in Periodicals_and_Newspapers are the following
selections:

        Fins-PaN-01  Vigdor Schreibman, "The Politics of Cyberspace"
(Fins ed., Jan 1994) (Figures 1-3, of this work are included in
separate files, uuencode version: Fins-PaN-01a to 01c)

        Fins-PaN-02  Richard E. Sclove, "Democratizing Technology," in
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Jan 12, 1994, pp. B1-B2

        Fins-PaN-03  Patryk Silver, Bell Atlantic-TCI: Merger Mania,
and Edward S. Herman, Peter Pangloss Predicts, and Herbert I.
Schiller, The Corporate Pipeline Into Our Heads, in LIES OF OUR TIMES,
January-February 1994

        Fins-PaN-041  Vigdor Schreibman, Part 1, "The Capital and
Capitol Hill:  Propagating a counter-culture of madness"  (Fins ed.,
Mar 1994) (Figure 1, of this work is included in a separate file,
uuencode version: Fins-PaN-04b)

        Fins-PaN-042  Vigdor Schreibman, Part 2, "The Capital and
Capitol Hill:  A setting for madness (Fins ed., Mar 1994) (Table 1, of
this work is included in a separate file, uuencode version:
Fins-PaN-04b)

        Fins-PaN-043  Vigdor Schreibman, Part 3, "The Capital and
Capitol Hill:  The triumph of Jeffersonian Democracy (Fins ed., Mar
1994)

        Fins-PaN-05  Vigdor Schreibman, "Preservation of an American
Heritage" (Fins ed., Mar 1994)


Follow these directions to browse the Fins Information Age Lib:

If you have a Gopher client :
gopher to inform.umd.edu
and go to the directory
Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Fins_Information_Age

If you have ftp :
ftp to inform.umd.edu
cd to inforM/Educational_Resources/Computers_and_Society/Fins_Information_Age

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