Media technology and society : a history : from the telegraph to the Internet / Brian Winston.

By:

Winston, Brian

Contributor(s):

Winston, Brian. Misunderstanding media

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 374 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0203024370
9780203024379
9781134766338
1134766335
9786610331826
6610331820
9781134766284
1134766289
9781134766321
1134766327
1280331828
9781280331824

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Media technology and society.DDC classification:

302.23 21

LOC classification:

P96.T42 W49 1998eb

Other classification:

05.30
AP 13300
AP 15000
MS 4850

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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.

Summary: How are new media born? How do they change? And how do they change us? This work reports on the history of communication technologies, from the printing press to the Internet, and seeks to challenge the myth of an 'information revolution'.

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Revised edition of: Misunderstanding media. 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-360) and index.

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How are new media born? How do they change? And how do they change us? This work reports on the history of communication technologies, from the printing press to the Internet, and seeks to challenge the myth of an 'information revolution'.

English.

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