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Informationen zum Autor Patrice Flichy is head of the communications research group at the French Centre National d'Études des Télécommunications Klappentext Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years. From the semaphore and telegraph to contemporary information technologies, Dynamics of Modern Communication focuses on the relationship between technological and social change. Particular emphasis is put on four processes: the birth of the modern state at the end of the eighteenth century; the development of stock markets; the transformation of private life in the modern nuclear family; and the individualism of the late twentieth century. Exploring the interaction of technology and social context - for example, in the move from public methods of communication to more private and individualized forms - Flichy exposes the gap between the original conception of a technology and its end use after the interplay of political, economic and consumer forces. Zusammenfassung A social history of communication technology from 1790 to 1995 and a critical analysis of the social shaping and impact of the communication technologies. The text explores the interaction of technology and social context processes such as the move from public to private forms of communication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: FROM STATE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION TO MARKET-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION (1790-1870) Introduction State-Controlled Communication The Semaphore Telegraph Networks and Electricity Market-Controlled Communication The Electric Telegraph PART TWO: FAMILY COMMUNICATION (1870-1930) Introduction Collection and Souvenir Photography and the Gramophone From Trading in Goods to Trading in Souls The Telephone The Wireless Age Radio Broadcasting PART THREE: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION (1930-1990) Introduction Telephone Engineers¿ Technical Options The Triumph of Electronics Television and Computers Private Communication Final Reflections ...
List of contents
Introduction
PART ONE: FROM STATE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION TO MARKET-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION (1790-1870)
Introduction
State-Controlled Communication
The Semaphore Telegraph
Networks and Electricity
Market-Controlled Communication
The Electric Telegraph
PART TWO: FAMILY COMMUNICATION (1870-1930)
Introduction
Collection and Souvenir
Photography and the Gramophone
From Trading in Goods to Trading in Souls
The Telephone
The Wireless Age
Radio Broadcasting
PART THREE: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION (1930-1990)
Introduction
Telephone Engineers' Technical Options
The Triumph of Electronics
Television and Computers
Private Communication
Final Reflections
Report
`Focusing on the relationship between technological and social change, this study offers a comprehensive social history of communication technologies from 1790 to the present' - International Review of Social History
`A scholarly, analytical assessment which makes substantial contributions to our theoretical understanding of new communication technologies.... The editors of the Media, Culture & Society series of SAGE have done us a great service by arranging for the translation and re-publication of the volume.... The "shelf life" and scholarly value of Dynamics will, without doubt, far surpass that of more fashionable publications' - Communicatiewetenschap
