Media technology and society : a history : from the telegraph to the Internet

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Author:

Winston, Brian.

ISBN:

9780415142304

9780415142298

Personal Author:

Winston, Brian.

Publication Information:

London : Routledge, 1998.

Physical Description:

xiv, 374 p. ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Rev. ed. of: Misunderstanding media. 1986.

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.

Subject Term:

Mass media -- Technological innovations -- History.

Communication -- Technological innovations -- History.

Communication -- Social aspects.

Mass media -- Social aspects.

Added Author:

Winston, Brian. Misunderstanding media.

Added Title:

Misunderstanding media.

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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.