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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Brian Winston |
| ISBN: | 0415142296 9780415142298 041514230X 9780415142304 |
| OCLC Number: | 37567233 |
| Notes: | Rev. ed. of: Misunderstanding media. 1986. |
| Description: | xiv, 374 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: A storm from paradise -- technological innovation, diffusion and suppression -- Pt. I. Propagating sound at considerable distances. 1. The telegraph. 2. Before the speaking telephone. 3. The capture of sound -- Pt. II. The vital spark and fugitive pictures. 4. Wireless and radio. 5. Mechanically scanned television. 6. Electronically scanned television. 7. Television spin-offs and redundancies -- Pt. III. Inventions for casting up sums very pretty. 8. Mechanising calculation. 9. The first computers. 10. Suppressing the main frames. 11. The integrated circuit. 12. The coming of the microcomputer -- Pt. IV. The intricate web of trails, this grand system. 13. The beginnings of networks. 14. Networks and recording technologies. 15. Communications satellites. 16. The satellite era. 17. Cable television. 18. The Internet -- Conclusion: The pile of debris -- from the Boulevard des Capucins to the Leningradsky Prospect. |
| Responsibility: | Brian Winston. |
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"In this widely researched history of communication and information technologies, from the printing press to the Internet, Brian Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellites, 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. Winston's monograph asks difficult questions: How are new media born? How do they change? Moreover, how do they change us? He concludes that the information Revolution is not revolutionary. Current technologies are merely elaborating a process of change begun much earlier, and historical study of these alterations offers many insights into the potential effects of today's latest developments."<br>-American Association for History and Computing Prize for the Best Book of 1998 <br>"Winston's notes should not be missed; they contain historical nuggets and comment on the main text. A valuable history illuminated with a unique and insightful model applicable to other fields. Highly recommended as a replacement for the earlier volume."<br>-"Choice, 3/99 <br>"With an impressive breadth of scholarship, the author makes an effective case...this book should provide a healthy counterweight to the hyperbole that currently surrounds talk and writing about the 'Information Age'."<br>-"American Studies <br> Read more...
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