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Information Bridging: Interpersonal Connection as Inscribed Information

Strieter, Nathan B.

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2010, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
If the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century was an epoch defined by mechanical technology, the twenty-first century has defined itself as an epoch of information markets whose primary medium of exchange occurs via digital networks. The effects of information technology are evident on culture, as it has accelerated rates of information processing and begun to personalize one’s interaction with information, but its effects are not as clear with respect to architecture. The investigation of a typology that is both information and culture focused, the library/mediatheque, aims to reveal the effects that information technology will have on architecture. These programs concerned with public information are increasingly important, as technological interfaces isolate persons with perceived information and no longer presents a societal check on the validity or importance of specific information. Presently, as a reaction or as a coincidence, the contemporary library has been called upon to include public space as a prominent program of the typology. The isolation of audiovisual perception is contrary to efforts of including public space. Still, the architecture of the library has an opportunity through digital technology to switch its content from books, to the paths of navigation to information. As technology makes the media of information practically disappear the library must increasingly devote its program to the sociological efforts of public space, that of observation, and the encouragement of interpersonal information exchange. In this way it borders on the display of inscribed information on architecture, a method that defined cultures long before the invention of books or kindles
Patricia Kucker, MARCH (Committee Chair)
Nnamdi Elleh, PhD (Committee Chair)
185 p.

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  • Strieter, N. B. (2010). Information Bridging: Interpersonal Connection as Inscribed Information [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1291149843

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Strieter, Nathan. Information Bridging: Interpersonal Connection as Inscribed Information. 2010. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1291149843.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Strieter, Nathan. "Information Bridging: Interpersonal Connection as Inscribed Information." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1291149843

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)