Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology (SpringerBriefs in Sociology) - Tapa blanda

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9789400739765: Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology (SpringerBriefs in Sociology)
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ISBN 10: 9400739761 ISBN 13: 9789400739765
Editorial: Springer, 2012

Sinopsis

This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today’s practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book’s main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress—speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

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This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today s practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book s main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

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Editorial
Springer
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9400739761
ISBN 13 
9789400739765
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
168
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