ISBN:
9781623569976
,
9781623563110
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 157 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
17 cm
Series Statement:
Object lessons
DDC:
302.23/45
Keywords:
Television Channel selectors
;
History
;
Television viewers Psychology
;
Grazing (Television)
;
Television Social aspects
;
Popular culture
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"--
Abstract:
"A material, literary, and cultural exploration of how the remote control, a seemingly innocuous media accessory, impacts our perception and world-view"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Changing volumes and valuesConvenience, necessity, nuisance -- It's complicated.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
