Point-to-point: telecommunications networks form the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone [electronic resource] / Gabriele Balbi and Richard R. John
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Point-to-point: telecommunications networks form the optical telegraph to the mobile telephone [electronic resource] / Gabriele Balbi and Richard R. John
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Balbi, Gabriele
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John, Richard R.
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[Abstract] Chapter published in Communication and Technology, 5th volume of the Handbook of Communication Science. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. This chapter surveys the history of telecommunications from a global perspective and highlights three influential interpretative traditions. It has two parts. The first part defines “telecommunications” and sketches the main dimensions of four telecommunications networks over a two-hundred-year period – the optical telegraph, the electric telegraph, the landline telephone, and the mobile telephone (and its predecessor, the wireless telegraph). The second part shows how historical scholarship on topics in the history of telecommunications has been shaped by three intellectual traditions: the Large Technical Systems (LTS) approach; political economy; and the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT).
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Communication and Technology, 5th volume of the Handbook of Communication Science / L. Cantoni & J. A. Danowski (Eds.). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015. pp. 35-55
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