roundtable: FINS SPECIAL REPORT

roundtable: FINS SPECIAL REPORT

FINS SPECIAL REPORT

Vigdor Schreibman - FINS (fins@access.digex.net)
Mon, 7 Mar 1994 12:42:29 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Mon, 7 Mar 1994 12:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
Subject: FINS SPECIAL REPORT
To: Vigdor Schreibman - FINS <fins@access.digex.net>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9403071225.A799-0100000@access2.digex.net>

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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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