Media,Technology and Society: A History: From the Telegraph to the Internet

by Brian Winston

Challenging the popular myth of a present-day 'information revolution', Media Technology and Society is essential reading for anyone interested in the social impact of technological change. Winston argues that the development of new media forms, from the telegraph and the telephone to computers, satellite and virtual reality, is the product of a constant play-off between social necessity and the unwritten law by which new technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is limited.

Genres: Nonfiction

392 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 1998

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 1 out of 5]

Intolerably bloated rhetoric; not worth my time, or yours. Pity as it is a topic worth exploring.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

uses an innovative model to describe the breakthrough and subsequent progress of every new telecomms technology since the telegraph