Download or read book Communicate on the Telephone written by Alan Hickman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Telephone Book written by Avital Ronell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constitution of self and other, the stability of location, systems of transfer, and the destination of speech. Profoundly changing our concept of long-distance, it is constantly transmitting effects of real and evocative power. To the extent that it always relates us to the absent other, the telephone, and the massive switchboard attending it, plugs into a hermeneutics of mourning. The Telephone Book, itself organized by a "telephonic logic," fields calls from philosophy, history, literature, and psychoanalysis. It installs a switchboard that hooks up diverse types of knowledge while rerouting and jamming the codes of the disciplines in daring ways. Avital Ronell has done nothing less than consider the impact of the telephone on modern thought. Her highly original, multifaceted inquiry into the nature of communication in a technological age will excite everyone who listens in. The book begins by calling close attention to the importance of the telephone in Nazi organization and propaganda, with special regard to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. In the Third Reich the telephone became a weapon, a means of state surveillance, "an open accomplice to lies." Heidegger, in Being and Time and elsewhere, elaborates on the significance of "the call." In a tour de force response, Ronell mobilizes the history and terminology of the telephone to explicate his difficult philosophy. Ronell also speaks of the appearance of the telephone in the literary works of Duras, Joyce, Kafka, Rilke, and Strindberg. She examines its role in psychoanalysis—Freud said that the unconscious is structured like a telephone, and Jung and R. D. Laing saw it as a powerful new body part. She traces its historical development from Bell's famous first call: "Watson, come here!" Thomas A. Watson, his assistant, who used to communicate with spirits, was eager to get the telephone to talk, and thus to link technology with phantoms and phantasms. In many ways a meditation on the technologically constituted state, The Telephone Book opens a new field, becoming the first political deconstruction of technology, state terrorism, and schizophrenia. And it offers a fresh reading of the American and European addiction to technology in which the telephone emerges as the crucial figure of this age.
Download or read book The Multiple Telegraph written by Alexander Graham Bell and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telephone Technique written by Cheryl Dooley and published by Simon & Schuster (Australia). This book was released on 1993 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Phone Book written by Mary Jane Copps and published by . This book was released on 2014-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Give Good Phone written by Lisa Collier Cool and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Effective telephone communication is vital to the successful executive, ambitious newcomer and job applicant. This total guide to telephone success employs step-by-step programs, anecdotes, examples and quotes from successful businesswomen and men.
Download or read book The People s Network written by Robert MacDougall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-01-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems, stringing their own wires to bring this new technology to the people. Managed by opportunists and idealists alike, these small businesses were motivated not only by profit but also by the promise of open communication as a weapon against monopoly capital and for protection of regional autonomy. As the Bell empire grew, independents fought fiercely to retain control of their local networks and companies—a struggle with an emerging corporate giant that has been almost entirely forgotten. The People's Network reconstructs the story of the telephone's contentious beginnings, exploring the interplay of political economy, business strategy, and social practice in the creation of modern North American telecommunications. Drawing from government documents in the United States and Canada, independent telephone journals and publications, and the archives of regional Bell operating companies and their rivals, Robert MacDougall locates the national debates over the meaning, use, and organization of the telephone industry as a turning point in the history of information networks. The competing businesses represented dueling political philosophies: regional versus national identity and local versus centralized power. Although independent telephone companies did not win their fight with big business, they fundamentally changed the way telecommunications were conceived.
Download or read book Forecasting the Telephone written by Ithiel de Sola Pool and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1983 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the approach of technology assessment to the telephone. The author's analysis forecasts the effect of the telephone on society and compares it with the reality. This book not only examines the social consequences of the telephone, but provides a model for future efficient assessments of new technologies. It documents a largely unknown piece of the history of American technology and anlayzes the requirements for success in technological forecasting.
Download or read book Reclaiming Conversation written by Sherry Turkle and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging look at how technology is undermining our creativity and relationships and how face-to-face conversation can help us get it back.
Download or read book Telephone Conversation written by Robert Hopper and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveal the complex world of telephone conversation. This book eavesdrops on the sounds of telephone conversation, the most important yet least examined province of contemporary communication and an important aspect of contemporary life.
Download or read book Powerful Telephone Skills written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telephone Skills written by Patrick Forsyth and published by CIPD Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sets out simple principles and techniques to enhance your communication skills and ensure you make a positive impact on the telephone. this work provides practical guidance on: taking calls; making calls; using your voice, intonation and language to best effect; and listening attentively and knowing when to take the initiative.
Download or read book Phone Genius written by Michelle Mills-Porter and published by SRA Books. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take your communication to a whole new level. Become a Phone Genius! You probably already have a technical manual that tells you how to use your telephone efficiently. Yet there has never been a manual that tells you how to actually communicate effectively using this highly important piece of business equipment. Until now. In Phone Genius you will discover: • Why talking to someone you can’t see is so much harder than in person. • What technology does to your voice and how you can change that. • How to recognise behaviour and language patterns so as to pre-empt the needs and wants of others. • How to increase your effectiveness over the phone and gain better results. Michelle Mills-Porter passes on her skills in using the telephone as her main tool of communication. Using stories and lessons gleaned from her 25 years of making calls, building business relationships and securing high level appointments, Michelle will show you how you too can become a Phone Genius.
Download or read book Understanding Telephone Electronics written by John L. Fike and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Telephone communication in the United States written by Harold S. Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Magic of Communication written by John Mills and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone written by Rupert Sargent Holland and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: None of the inventions that have resulted from the study of electricity have been stumbled upon in the dark. Scientists in both England and America had realized the possibility of the telegraph before Morse built his first working outfit in his rooms on Washington Square. Edison took out a patent covering wireless telegraphy before Marconi gave his name to the new means of communication. Often a man who has been following one trail through this new field has come upon another, glanced down it, and decided to go back and explore it more thoroughly another day.
