MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY by Brian Winston ( 9780415142298 )

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Title:

MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
A HISTORY FROM THE PRINTING PRESS TO THE SUPERHIGHWAY

By:

Brian Winston

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Hardback

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0415142296

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9780415142298

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

16 April, 1998

Pages:

392

Description:

How are new media born? How do they change? And how do they change us? Media Technology and Society offers a comprehensive account of the history of communications technologies, from the printing press to the internet.

Synopsis:

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.

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30 b&w photographs

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Routledge

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