ISBN:
9781623569976
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9781623563110
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 157 Seiten
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Illustrationen
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17 cm
Series Statement:
Object lessons
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2345
Keywords:
Geschichte 1920-2014
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Geschichte
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Gesellschaft
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Ästhetik
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Television Channel selectors
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History
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Television viewers Psychology
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Grazing (Television)
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Television Social aspects
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Popular culture
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory
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PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
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Werbung
;
Fernbedienung
;
Sachkultur
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USA
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Fernbedienung
;
Werbung
;
Sachkultur
;
Geschichte 1920-2014
Abstract:
"While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls reveal the deep impact electronics design has on our self-perception and world-view. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material, literary, and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them"..
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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