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Misunderstanding Media: Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies

Autor Brian Winston
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 mar 2018
The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781138699991
ISBN-10: 1138699993
Pagini: 434
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Cuprins

1. Breakages Limited   2. Fugitive Pictures  3. ‘Inventions for Casting Up Sums, Very Pretty’  4. Digression – ‘The Most Remarkable Technology’  5. Little Bird of Union and Understanding  6. Communicate by Word of Mouth

Descriere

The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.