Freedom and Information: A History

As an expression of cultural freedom, digital technology creates a tension between access to information on the one hand and control and power strategies that seek to restrict access and centralize datasets on the other. This book considers the evolution of information systems as centering upon control, open access, and knowledge, tracing the development of these notions from the Nineteenth Century. The cross-disciplinary approach used in this book will appeal to researchers and PhD students in a wide variety of disciplines, interested in information as a guiding force in the changes in our spaces, both digital and cultural.. Author Sara de Freitas provides a kind of cultural history that reworks not only how we think about information per se but also how we reconsider the human in relation to it – demonstrating the ways in which information and its pervasive influen

She holds a visiting senior research fellowship at the London Knowledge Lab, London, serves as Adjunct Professor at the University of Malta, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.. About the AuthorSara de Freitas is Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute at the University of Coventry where she leads an applied research team working closely with industry

Sara de Freitas is Director of Research at the Serious Games Institute at the University of Coventry where she leads an applied research team working closely with industry. She holds a visiting senior research fellowship at the London Knowledge Lab, London, serves as Adjunct Professor at the University of Malta, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society