Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
Toscano, Aaron
Produktnummer:
18cfd2835b08b4476caa7cf741115f4b79
| Autor: | Toscano, Aaron |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Guglielmo Marconi Marconi's Wireless Modernism New media technology Positive popular press accounts Rhetoric of Technical Communication Science and Technology Studies black box technology |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 13.02.2012 |
| EAN: | 9789400739765 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 145 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Springer Netherland |
Produktinformationen "Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology"
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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