Bösch, Frank (Author)
Göttingen Wallstein Verlag
Edition Details: [Eng. Title: Towards a digital society: Computer use in West Germany 1955-1990]. Book series: Geschichte der Gegenwart, no. 20.
Language: German
Wahrnehmungen, Gebrauchsweisen und sozioökonomische Folgen der Computernutzung bis zum Aufkommen des PCs. Die Verbreitung des Computers zählt zu den wichtigsten Veränderungen der jüngeren Zeitgeschichte. Bereits seit Mitte der 1950er Jahre setzten zunächst große Unternehmen und Behörden, dann auch das Militär und Sicherheitsdienste zunehmend Computer ein. Die Zeitgenossen diskutierten intensiv die Auswirkungen der Computernutzung und bewerteten sie als einen tiefgreifenden Umbruch. Dennoch hat sich die Zeitgeschichtsforschung bislang kaum mit dem Beginn des digitalen Zeitalters beschäftigt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Bandes untersuchen die Verbindungen zwischen technischem und gesellschaftlichem Wandel als einen evolutionären Prozess, der selten gradlinig verlief. Klassische Themen der Zeitgeschichtsforschung, wie die Geschichte der Inneren Sicherheit, des Wohlfahrtsstaats und des Bankenwesens, der Arbeitswelt, der Verwaltung, aber auch von Protest- und Subkulturen werden auf diese Weise neu betrachtet. Dabei wird aufgezeigt, inwieweit Computer die Kontroll-, Betriebs- und Machtgefüge veränderten. Die Bundesrepublik steht im Vordergrund, jedoch mit vielfältigen Seitenblicken auf grenzübergreifende Verflechtungen. [Perceptions, uses, and socioeconomic consequences of computer use up to the advent of the personal computer. The spread of the computer is one of the most important changes in recent history. As early as the mid-1950s, first large corporations and government agencies, then the military and security services increasingly used computers. Contemporaries intensively discussed the effects of computer use and assessed it as a profound upheaval. Nevertheless, contemporary history research has hardly dealt with the beginning of the digital age. The authors of this volume examine the links between technological and social change as an evolutionary process that rarely proceeded in a straight line. Classic topics of contemporary history research, such as the history of homeland security, the welfare state and banking, the world of work, administration, but also of protest and subcultures, are looked at anew in this way. The extent to which computers changed the structures of control, operation and power is shown. The Federal Republic is in the foreground, but with manifold side glances at cross-border interconnections.]
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