Marconi's wireless and the rhetoric of a new technology [electronic resource]
- 作者： Toscano, Aaron A.
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- SpringerBriefs in sociology,
- 出版： Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands
- 叢書名： SpringerBriefs in sociology,
- 主題： Wireless communication systems--History. , Technological innovations--History , Technological innovations--Social aspects , Social Sciences , Social Sciences, general. , Regional and Cultural Studies. , Philosophy , Humanities, general.
- ISBN： 9789400739772 (electronic bk.) 、 9789400739765 (paper)
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- 資料類型: 電子書
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- 系統號： 005083316 | 機讀編目格式
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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.