| Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Toscano, Aaron (Author) |
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ISBN: 9400739761 ISBN-13: 9789400739765 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy - Social Science | Regional Studies - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Arts & Humanities |
| Dewey: 621.382 |
| Series: Springerbriefs in Sociology |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.54 lbs) 145 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |