Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization,...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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Σειρά: | SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Rhetoric of Technical Communication.- Chapter 2. Analyzing Technology to Uncover Social Values, Attitudes, and Practices
- Chapter 3. Marconi's Representations of the Wireless
- Chapter 4. Popular Press Representations of Marconi's Wireless
- Chapter 5. Tropes of Progress in F.T. Marinetti's Early Futurist Texts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References.