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Item Details
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MISUNDERSTANDING MEDIA
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| By: |
Brian Winston |
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Electronic book text |
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£110.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1315512203 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781315512204 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
20 September, 2016 |
| Series: |
Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies |
| Pages: |
424 |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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