| Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television Contributor(s): Downey, Gregory J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801887100 ISBN-13: 9780801887109 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press OUR PRICE: $56.05 Product Type: Hardcover Published: February 2008 Annotation: This engaging study traces the development of closed captioning -- a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from decades-long developments in cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf. Gregory J. Downey discusses how digital computers, coupled with human mental and physical skills, made live television captioning possible. Downey's survey includess the hidden information workers who mediate between live audiovisual action and the production of visual track and written records. His work examines communication technology, human geography, and the place of labor in a technologically complex and spatially fragmented world. Illustrating the ways in which technological development grows out of government regulation, education innovation, professional profit-seeking, and social activism, this interdisciplinary study combines insights from several fields, among them the history of technology, human geography, mass communication, and information studies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 20th Century - Technology & Engineering | Television & Video - Technology & Engineering | History |
| Dewey: 384.556 |
| LCCN: 2007020389 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.4" W x 9.15" (1.49 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This engaging study traces the development of closed captioning--a field that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s from decades-long developments in cinematic subtitling, courtroom stenography, and education for the deaf. Gregory J. Downey discusses how digital computers, coupled with human mental and physical skills, made live television captioning possible. Downey's survey includess the hidden information workers who mediate between live audiovisual action and the production of visual track and written records. His work examines communication technology, human geography, and the place of labor in a technologically complex and spatially fragmented world. Illustrating the ways in which technological development grows out of government regulation, education innovation, professional profit-seeking, and social activism, this interdisciplinary study combines insights from several fields, among them the history of technology, human geography, mass communication, and information studies. |
Contributor Bio(s): Downey, Gregory J.: - Gregory J. Downey is an associate professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication and the School of Library & Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Telegraph Messenger Boys: Labor, Technology, and Geography, 1850-1950. |