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Media Technology and Society: A History from the Printing Press to the Superhighway

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Media Technology and Society: A History From the Printing Press to the Superhighway - Winston, Brian
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Challenging the popular myth of a present-day '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 play-off between social necessity and suppression: the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is ...

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Media Technology and Society: A History From the Printing Press to the Superhighway 2015, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9781138130678

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Media Technology and Society: A History From the Printing Press to the Superhighway 1998, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780415142304

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