Media,Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the InternetRoutledge, 2002 M09 11 - 392 páginas 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. |
Contenido
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Before the speaking telephone 30 339 | 30 |
The capture of sound | 51 |
Wireless and radio | 67 |
Mechanically scanned television | 88 |
Electronically scanned television | 100 |
Networks and recording technologies | 261 |
Communications satellites | 276 |
The satellite era | 295 |
Cable television | 305 |
The Internet | 321 |
The pile of debris from the Boulevard | 337 |
Notes | 343 |
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Television spinoffs and redundancies | 126 |
PART III | 145 |
The first computers | 166 |
Suppressing the main frames | 189 |
The integrated circuit | 206 |
The coming of the microcomputer | 227 |
PART IV | 241 |
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Media Technology and Society: A History : from the Telegraph to the Internet Brian Winston Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
Media,Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet Brian Winston Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
Media Technology and Society: A History : from the Telegraph to the Internet Brian Winston Vista previa limitada - 1998 |
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