Misunderstanding Media Paperback / softback
by Brian Winston
Part of the Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Pages:434 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/03/2018
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- ISBN:9781138699991
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:434 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:27/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138699991
