Media Technology and Society: A History : from the Telegraph to the Internet

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Psychology Press, 1998 - 374 pagina's
Winston's account examines the role played by individuals such as Alexander Graham Bell, Gugliemo Marconi, John Logie Baird and Boris Rozing, in the development of the telephone, radio and television, and Charles Babbage, whose design for a "universal analytic engine" was a forerunner of the modern computer. He examines why some prototypes are abandoned, and why many "inventions" are created simultaneously by innovators unaware of each other's existence, and shows how new industries develop around these inventions, providing media products to a mass audience. The book seeks to challenge the popular myth of a present-day "information revolution", and should be of interest to those interested in the social impact of technological change.
 

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Modelling change
3
Invention
9
PART I
17
Before the speaking telephone 30 339
30
The capture of sound
51
Wireless and radio
67
Mechanically scanned television
88
Electronically scanned television
100
Networks and recording technologies
261
Communications satellites
276
The satellite era
295
Cable television
305
The Internet
321
The pile of debris from the Boulevard
337
Notes
343
88
346

Television spinoffs and redundancies
126
PART III
145
The first computers
166
Suppressing the main frames
189
The integrated circuit
206
The coming of the microcomputer
227
PART IV
241

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Over de auteur (1998)

Brian Winston is Head of the School of Communication, Design and Media at the University of Westminster. He has been Dean of the College of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University, Chair of Cinema Studies at New York University and Founding Research Director of the Glasgow University Media Group. His books include Claiming the Real (1995). As a television professional, he has worked on World in Action and has an Emmy for documentary script-writing.

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