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Misunderstanding Media : Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies - Brian Winston

Misunderstanding Media

By: Brian Winston

eText | 4 October 2016 | Edition Number 1

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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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Non-FictionPsychologySocial PsychologySociety & CultureMedia StudiesEngineering & TechnologyElectronics & Communications EngineeringCommunications Engineering & TelecommunicationsTelephone TechnologyMobile Phone TechnologyScienceScience in General
Industrial Applications of Scientific Research & Technological InnovationCultural StudiesPopular CultureSociology & AnthropologySociologySocial TheoryHistory

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