Background
Beniger, James Ralph was born on December 16, 1946 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, United States. Son of Ralph Joseph and Charlotte Emma Beniger.
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
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Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Society? How did the collection, processing, and communication of information come to play an increasingly important role in advanced industrial countries relative to the roles of matter and energy? And why is this change recent―or is it? James Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the past century. In the United States, applications of steam power in the early 1800s brought a dramatic rise in the speed, volume, and complexity of industrial processes, making them difficult to control. Scores of problems arose: fatal train wrecks, misplacement of freight cars for months at a time, loss of shipments, inability to maintain high rates of inventory turnover. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information: the Control Revolution. Between the 1840s and the 1920s came most of the important information-processing and communication technologies still in use today: telegraphy, modern bureaucracy, rotary power printing, the postage stamp, paper money, typewriter, telephone, punch-card processing, motion pictures, radio, and television. Beniger shows that more recent developments in microprocessors, computers, and telecommunications are only a smooth continuation of this Control Revolution. Along the way he touches on many fascinating topics: why breakfast was invented, how trademarks came to be worth more than the companies that own them, why some employees wear uniforms, and whether time zones will always be necessary. The book is impressive not only for the breadth of its scholarship but also for the subtlety and force of its argument. It will be welcomed by sociologists, economists, historians of science and technology, and all curious in general.
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James Ralph Beniger
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Education
Bachelor magna cum laude, Harvard University, 1969; Master of Arts in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1973; Master of Science in Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1974; Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, 1978.
Career
Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-1977;
instructor, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1977-1979;
assistant professor, Princeton University, 1979-1985;
associate professor, Annenberg School of Communications University of Southern California, Los Angeles, since 1985. Editorial board Public Opinion Quarterly, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1982-1987. Board overseers General Social Survey, University of Chicago, 1984-1987.
Advisory county United States CongressOffice of Technology Assessment, 1991. Associate editor Communication Research, Los Angeles, since 1988.
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
( Why do we find ourselves living in an Information Socie...)
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society by James R. Beniger (1986-05-03)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
- Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance.
- Trafficking in Drug Users: Professional Exchange Networks in the Control of Deviance (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) by James Ralph Beniger (1984-02-24)
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
Membership
Member aAAS, American Association Public Opinion Research (secretary, treasurer 1988-1990, chair 50th Anniversary Conference since 1994), American Sociological Association (program chairman 1987-1988), International Comm. Association, American Statistical Association.
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Married Kay Diane Ferdinandsen, December 7, 1984.
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American
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Named Samuel Lazero Memorial Lecturer Institute for Science Information, Philadelphia, 1988, Distinguished Guest Contributor Keio U., Tokyo, 1988. John Randolph Haynes andDora Haynes Foundation grantee, since 1994.Named Samuel Lazero Memorial Lecturer Institute for Science Information, Philadelphia, 1988, Distinguished Guest Contributor Keio U., Tokyo, 1988. John Randolph Haynes andDora Haynes Foundation grantee, since 1994.