When Old Technologies Were New Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

Name: When Old Technologies Were New Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780195063417

ISBN-10: 0195063414

ISBN-13: 9780195063417

Edition: 1988 (Reprint)

Authors: Carolyn Marvin

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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.

Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/24/1990
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 8.27" wide x 5.43" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Introduction



Inventing the Expert: Technological Literacy as Social Currency



Community and Class Order: Progress Close to Home



Locating the Body in Electrical Space and Time: Competing Authorities



Dazzling the Multitude: Original Media Spectacles



Annihilating Space, Time, and Difference: Experiments in Cultural Homogenization


Epilogue


Notes


Index