ISBN:
9780203024379
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0203024370
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0415142296
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041514230X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (389 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Edition:
2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Media,Technology and Society : A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Technological innovations
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History
;
Mass media Social aspects
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Communication Social aspects
;
Communication Technological innovations
;
History
;
Communication
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: A HISTORY: FROM THE TELEGRAPH TO THE INTERNET -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: A STORM FROM PARADISE: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, DIFFUSION AND SUPPRESSION -- THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION AS HYPERBOLE -- MODELLING CHANGE -- 'INVENTION' -- PART I PROPAGATING SOUND AT CONSIDERABLE DISTANCES -- 1 THE TELEGRAPH -- SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE TO IDEATION: STATIC ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPHS -- PROTOTYPES, NECESSITY AND 'INVENTION': DYNAMIC ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPHS -- SUPPRESSION AND DIFFUSION: OWNING THE TELEGRAPH -- 2 BEFORE THE SPEAKING TELEPHONE -- SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE: THE TELEPHONE -- IDEATION: SPEECH TRANSMITTED BY ELECTRICITY -- PROTOTYPES: ELECTRICAL SPEAKING TELEPHONES BEFORE 1877 -- 3 THE CAPTURE OF SOUND -- SUPERVENING NECESSITY: THE TELEPHONE AND THE OFFICE -- 'INVENTION': CREATING THE TELEPHONE TO ORDER -- SUPPRESSION AND DIFFUSION: THE TELEPHONE AFTER 1900 -- 'INVENTING' A SPIN-OFF: THE RECORD -- PART II THE VITAL SPARK AND FUGITIVE PICTURES -- 4 WIRELESS AND RADIO -- SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE TO IDEATION: FROM SPARK TO WIRELESS -- NECESSITY, DIFFUSION AND SUPPRESSION: IRONCLADS AND TELEGRAMS -- 'INVENTION': FROM WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY TO RADIO -- IDEATION AND NECESSITY: THE IDEA OF BROADCASTING -- SUPPRESSION AND DIFFUSION: VALVES/TUBES, FM AND CARTELS -- LIVING WITH RADIO -- 5 MECHANICALLY SCANNED TELEVISION -- SCIENTIFIC COMPETENCE: LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY -- IDEATION: FAXES AND 'FUGITIVE PICTURES' -- PROTOTYPES: MECHANICAL SCANNING -- 6 ELECTRONICALLY SCANNED TELEVISION -- INVENTION I: ELECTRONIC SCANNING -- INVENTION II: ALTERNATIVE ELECTRONIC SCANNING -- NECESSITY AND SUPPRESSION: ENTERTAINMENT -- SUPPRESSING TELEVISION: 1935-48 -- SUPPRESSING TELEVISION: 1948 TO THE MID-1950S -- 7 TELEVISION SPIN-OFFS AND REDUNDANCIES -- SPIN-OFFS AND REDUNDANCIES: VCRS, CDS ET AL.
Abstract:
Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-360) and index
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