Misunderstanding Media

Informationen zum Autor Winston, Brian Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Brian Winston, Winston Brian
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2016
• EAN: 9781138699984
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69998-4
• No. of pages: 434
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies; Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mobile & Wireless Communications, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Research