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Author : JoAnne Yates
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801846137
A superb historical analysis of the philosophical and technological forces that led to the development of communication genres and processes in the modern American corporation.
Author : Robert Luther Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Telegraph
ISBN : 0405047274
A scholarly, well-documented study of how the telegraph grew from a toy to a great industry and then tied the sections of the nation together. An excellent bibliography is included.
Author : David Hochfelder
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781421407975
A complete history of how the telegraph revolutionized technological practice and life in America. Telegraphy in the nineteenth century approximated the internet in our own day. Historian and electrical engineer David Hochfelder offers readers a comprehensive history of this groundbreaking technology, which employs breaks in an electrical current to send code along miles of wire. The Telegraph in America, 1832–1920 examines the correlation between technological innovation and social change and shows how this transformative relationship helps us to understand and perhaps define modernity. The telegraph revolutionized the spread of information—speeding personal messages, news of public events, and details of stock fluctuations. During the Civil War, telegraphed intelligence and high-level directives gave the Union war effort a critical advantage. Afterward, the telegraph helped build and break fortunes and, along with the railroad, altered the way Americans thought about time and space. With this book, Hochfelder supplies us with an introduction to the early stirrings of the information age.
Author : James Schwoch
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252050459
The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary American effort in many fields of endeavor to know, act upon, and control a continent. Merging new research with bold reinterpretation, James Schwoch details the unexplored dimensions of the frontier telegraph and its impact. The westward spread of telegraphy entailed encounters with environments that challenged Americans to acquire knowledge of natural history, climate, and a host of other fields. Telegraph codes and ciphers, meanwhile, became important political, military, and economic secrets. Schwoch shows how the government's use of commercial networks drove a relationship between the two sectors that served increasingly expansionist aims. He also reveals the telegraph's role in securing high ground and encouraging surveillance. Both became vital aspects of the American effort to contain, and conquer, the West's indigenous peoples--and part of a historical arc of concerns about privacy, data gathering, and surveillance that remains pertinent today. Entertaining and enlightening, Wired into Nature explores an unknown history of the West.
Author : Menahem Blondheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 067462212X
This unique history of telegraphic news gathering and news flow evaluates the effect of the innovative technology on the evolution of the concept of news and journalistic practices. It also addresses problems of technological innovation and diffusion. Menahem Blondheim's main concern, however, is the development of oligopoly in business and the control revolution in American society. He traces the discovery of timely news as a commodity, presenting a lively and detailed account of the emergence of the New York Associated Press (AP) as the first private sector national monopoly in the United States and Western Union as the first industrial one.
Author : Laura R. Ford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107198975
This sweeping sociological analysis traces the emergence of intellectual property as a new type of legal property.
Author : Robert Britt Horwitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780195054453
Horwitz here examines the history of telecommunications to build a compelling new theory of regulation, showing how anti-regulation rhetoric has often had unintended and unwanted effects on American industry.
Author : Robert E. Babe,Richard Collins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0802067387
This study provides Canada's first comprehensive, integrated treatment of the emergence and development of key communication sectors: telegraph telephones, cable TV, broadcasting, communication satellites, and electronic publishing. By focusing on real institutions, actual (and frequently predatory) business practices, and law and regulatory policies, in both historical and contemporary perspectives, Babe helps demystify current communication issues. Stressing the flexibility of communication 'technologies' on the one hand, and the element of corporate power on the other, Babe reintroduces the principle of corporate/governmental responsibility for communication outcomes, a principle that has been largely drowned out by the shrill cries of 'Information Revolution.'
Author : Catherine L. Covert,John D. Stevens
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0815623070
Author : Ithiel de Sola Pool
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674042216
How can we preserve free speech in an electronic age? In a masterly synthesis of history, law, and technology, Ithiel de Sola Pool analyzes the confrontation between the regulators of the new communications technology and the First Amendment.
Author : Adam Goodheart
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400040155
Chronicles the revolution of ideas that preceded--and led to--the start of the Civil War, looking at a diverse cast of characters and the actions of citizens throughout the country in their efforts to move beyond compromise and end slavery.
Author : Mark Monmonier
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226534138
Maps with the News is a lively assessment of the role of cartography in American journalism. Tracing the use of maps in American news reporting from the eighteenth century to the 1980s, Mark Monmonier explores why and how journalistic maps have achieved such importance. "A most welcome and thorough investigation of a neglected aspect of both the history of cartography and modern cartographic practice."—Mapline "A well-written, scholarly treatment of journalistic cartography. . . . It is well researched, thoroughly indexed and referenced . . . amply illustrated."—Judith A. Tyner, Imago Mundi "There is little doubt that Maps with the News should be part of the training and on the desks of all those concerned with producing maps for mass consumption, and also on the bookshelves of all journalists, graphic artists, historians of cartography, and geographic educators."—W. G. V. Balchin, Geographical Journal "A definitive work on journalistic cartography."—Virginia Chipperfield, Society of University Cartographers Bulletin
Author : James D. McNiven
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627871419
Author : Andrew L. Russell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107039193
This book answers how openness became the defining principle of the information age, examining the history of information networks.
Author : Daniel J. Robinson
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015060108712
A distinctive blend of history, geography, government, economics, and biculturalism meant that communication systems and the mass media evolved differently in Canada than in either the United States or Europe. Bringing together twenty-six articles that range in subject from colonial newspapers in the early 1800s to music television in the 1980s, Communication History in Canada provides the historical foundation for a thorough contextual analysis of modern-day media and communication in this country. From Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis to Mary Vipond and Will Straw, the authors in this volume represent a wide cross-section of disciplines, including history, communication studies, sociology, journalism, political science, and film studies. Their essays are grouped in five sections: Time, Space, Technology, and Nation, which explores the relationship between media, society, and human thought; Postal Systems and Telecommunications, which centres on the telegraph, the telephone, and computers; Print Mass Media, which describes the origins and diffusion of newspapers and magazines, with a particular emphasis on commercialization through advertising and market research; Broadcast Media, which charts the rise of radio broadcasting in the inter-war years and of television broadcasting from the 1950s through the 1980s; and Cultural Industries, which examines film and sound recording.