When Old Technologies Were New

Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

Carolyn Marvin (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

296 Seiten

1990
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-506341-7 (ISBN)

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This study describes how two late 19th-century electronic technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisaged both by specialized engineering trade journals and the popular media.

This book describes how two newly invented communications technologies - the telephone and the electric light - were publicly envisioned, in specialized engineering trade journals as well as in more popular media, at the end of the nineteenth century. Much of the focus is on the telephone, particularly how it disrupted established social relations (people did not know how to to respond to its use or impact) and how society tried to bring it under a carefully prescribed pattern of proper usage. While the emphasis is on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, their broader social impact is also discussed.

Carolyn Marvin is Associate Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction
1. Inventing the Expert: Technological Literacy as Social Currency
2. Communitiy and Class Order, Progress Close to Home
3. Locating the Body in Electrical Space and Time, Competing Authorities
4. Dazzling the Multitude, Original Media Spectacles
5. Annihilating Space, Times, and Difference, Experiments in Cultural Homogenization
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.10.1990
Zusatzinfo	14 pp halftone plates
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 213 mm
Gewicht	386 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
	Technik ► Nachrichtentechnik
ISBN-10	0-19-506341-4 / 0195063414
ISBN-13	978-0-19-506341-7 / 9780195063417
Zustand	Neuware