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Media Technology and Society A History : From the Telegraph to the Internet (Hardcover)
| Author: Brian Winston |
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Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN-10: 0415142296
ISBN-13: 9780415142298
Sku: 204175856
Publish Date: 4/10/2007
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424
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| How are media born? How do they change? And how do they change us? "Media Technology and Society" offers a comprehensive account of the history of communications technologies, from the printing press to the internet. Brian Winston argues that the development of new media, 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. Winston's fascinating account examines the role played by individuals such as Alexander Graham Bell, Gugliemo Marconi, John Logie Baird, Boris Rozing and Charles Babbage, and challenges the popular myth of the present-day "information revolution." |
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