Misunderstanding Media (Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies)

Winston, Brian

ISBN 10: 1138699993 / ISBN 13: 9781138699991

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

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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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Bibliografische Details

Titel: Misunderstanding Media (Routledge Library ...
Verlag: Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: New