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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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Toscano, Aaron A. (Συγγραφέας)
Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
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.