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When Old Technologies Were New - Carolyn Marvin

When Old Technologies Were New

Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

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Buch | Softcover
296 Seiten
1990
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-506341-7 (ISBN)
CHF 33,50 inkl. MwSt
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
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