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Media Technology and Society A History From the Telegraph Media Technology and Society A History From the Telegraph to the Internet Brian Winston on FREE shipping on qualifying offers How are new media born How do they change And how do they change us Media Technology and Society offers a comprehensive account of the history of communications technologies MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND Monoskop communications technologies from the telegraph to the Internet Winston argues that the development of new media from the telephone to computers satellite camcorders and CDROM is the product of a constant playoff between social necessity and suppression the unwritten ‘law’ by which new technologies are introduced into society MediaTechnology and Society A History From the Challenging the popular myth of a presentday information revolution Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change Winston argues that the development of new media forms from the telegraph and the telephone to computers satellite and virtual reality is the product of a constant playoff between social necessity and suppression the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as MediaTechnology and Society A History From the Winston argues that the development of new media forms from the telegraph and the telephone to computers satellite and virtual reality is the product of a constant playoff between social necessity and suppression the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited Media Technology and Society A History From the Media Technology and Society A History From the Telegraph to the Internet Brian Winston Project MUSE Media Technology and Society A History Media Technology and SocietyA History From the Telegraph to the Internet By Brian Winston London Routledge 1998 374 pp 8500 cloth 2495 paper The disruptive potential of each new media technology is invariably thwarted by vested interests or so Winston contends in this long densely written and often ponderous book
