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,...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2012, 2012
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Rhetoric of Technical Communication.- Chapter 2. Analyzing Technology to Uncover Social Values, Attitudes, and Practices
- Chapter 3. Marconi's Representations of the Wireless
- Chapter 4. Popular Press Representations of Marconi's Wireless
- Chapter 5. Tropes of Progress in F.T. Marinetti's Early Futurist Texts
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References