Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

• Main Author: Toscano, Aaron A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Culture > Study and teaching.; Philosophy.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Regional and Cultural Studies.; Philosophy, general.

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,...

Table of Contents:

• 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.