Download or read book The Social Impact of the Telephone written by Ithiel de Sola Pool and published by Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social Impact of the Telephone written by Ithiel de Sola Pool and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Social Impact of Mobile Phones in the Digital Age written by C. P. Kumar and published by C. P. Kumar. This book was released on with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Social Impact of Mobile Phones in the Digital Age" is a thought-provoking exploration of the profound influence that mobile phones have had on our society. This book delves into the various aspects of the social consequences brought about by the mobile revolution. From the transformation of communication methods to the redefinition of relationships in the digital era, each chapter provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of mobile phones on different facets of our lives. It examines the breaking of geographical barriers, the rise of social media, the shaping of identity, the power of online platforms for community building, the dynamics of family bonds, the complexities of love and romance in the digital era, the dark side of connectivity including cyberbullying and online harassment, the delicate balance between privacy and surveillance, the implications for mental health, the role of mobile phones in education and learning, the challenges of work-life balance, the potential for civic engagement and activism, the intergenerational relationships shaped by mobile technology, and offers a glimpse into the future of mobile technology and its anticipated social shifts in an increasingly connected world. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the complex interplay between mobile phones and society in the digital age.
Download or read book Augmented Urban Spaces written by Alessandro Aurigi and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the intersection and articulation of physical and digital environments and the ways they can extend and reshape a spirit of place, while considering the problems posed and opportunities that arise. Grounded with international real -life
Download or read book The Social and Economic Impact of Telephones written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book iGen written by Jean M. Twenge and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in Time, USA TODAY, The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning, BBC, PBS, CNN, and NPR, iGen is crucial reading to understand how the children, teens, and young adults born in the mid-1990s and later are vastly different from their Millennial predecessors, and from any other generation. With generational divides wider than ever, parents, educators, and employers have an urgent need to understand today’s rising generation of teens and young adults. Born in the mid-1990s up to the mid-2000s, iGen is the first generation to spend their entire adolescence in the age of the smartphone. With social media and texting replacing other activities, iGen spends less time with their friends in person—perhaps contributing to their unprecedented levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. But technology is not the only thing that makes iGen distinct from every generation before them; they are also different in how they spend their time, how they behave, and in their attitudes toward religion, sexuality, and politics. They socialize in completely new ways, reject once sacred social taboos, and want different things from their lives and careers. More than previous generations, they are obsessed with safety, focused on tolerance, and have no patience for inequality. With the first members of iGen just graduating from college, we all need to understand them: friends and family need to look out for them; businesses must figure out how to recruit them and sell to them; colleges and universities must know how to educate and guide them. And members of iGen also need to understand themselves as they communicate with their elders and explain their views to their older peers. Because where iGen goes, so goes our nation—and the world.
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 America Calling written by Claude S. Fischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
Download or read book Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age written by Jorge Reina Schement and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of technology and the hunger for information has caused a wave of change in daily life in America. Nearly every American's environment now consists of cable television, video cassette players, answering machines, fax machines, and personal computers. Schement and Curtis argue that the information age has evolved gradually throughout the twentieth century. National focus on the production and distribution of information stems directly from the organizing principles and realities of the market system, not from a revolution sparked by the invention of the computer. Now available in paperback, Tendencies and Tensions of the Information Age, brings together findings from many disciplines, including classical studies, etymology, political sociology, and macroeconomics. This valuable resource will be enjoyed by sociologists, historians, and scholars of communication and information studies.
Download or read book America Calling written by Claude S. Fischer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology—how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life.
Download or read book The Cell Phone Reader written by Anandam P. Kavoori and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cell Phone Reader offers a diverse, eclectic set of essays that examines how this rapidly evolving technology is shaping new media cultures, new forms of identity, and media-centered relationships. The contributors focus on a range of topics, from horror films to hip-hop, from religion to race, and draw examples from across the globe. The Cell Phone Reader provides a road map for both scholars and beginning students to examine the profound social, cultural and international impact of this small device.
Download or read book I Hope I Don t Intrude written by David Vincent and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking his title from the catch-phrase of the eponymous hero of the 1825 play 'Paul Pry', a huge success in London, New York, and around the English-speaking world, David Vincent explores the worlds of privacy and celebrity in 19th-century Britain, examining debates about mass communication and state surveillance that link to today's concerns.
Download or read book Mobile World written by Lynne Hamill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing body of interesting research exploring the social shaping of mobile phones, covering a wide range of topics, from new forms of communication, to the changes in time organization, the uses of public places, the display of emotions and the formation and sustaining of communities. This book evaluates the launch and adoption of mobile phones, drawing out lessons for the future. In particular, it explores how social scientists can collaborate with designers and engineers in the development of new devices and uses. It will interest people from both industry and academia. Those working in the mobile communications industry in strategy, design and marketing will find this book of particular interest. In academia, undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in a wide range of social science fields will find it a useful reference: sociologists, economists, psychologists in areas such as Science and Technology studies; Cultural studies and New Media studies.
Download or read book The Design Culture Reader written by Ben Highmore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change (from telephones to weapon systems). The Design Culture Reader brings together an international array of writers whose work is of central importance for thinking about design culture in the past, present and future. Essays from philosophers, media and cultural theorists, historians of design, anthropologists, cultural historians, artists and literary critics all demonstrate the enormous potential of design studies for understanding the modern world. Organised in thematic sections, The Design Culture Reader explores the social role of design by looking at the impact it has in a number of areas - especially globalisation, ecology, and the changing experiences of modern life. Particular essays focus on topics such as design and the senses, design and war and design and technology, while the editor's introduction to the collection provides a compelling argument for situating design studies at the very forefront of contemporary thought.
Download or read book Power Madness and Immortality written by Mychilo Stephenson Cline and published by Mychilo Cline. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Technology and Women s Voices written by Cheris Kramarae and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-01-14 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
