When Old Technologies Were New Quotes

“It is also important to notice that communications technologies that prepared the way for twentieth-century media were built to uphold a scheme of social stratification that has attracted sustained contemporary challenge. This, as much as anything else, is a measure”
― Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

“New media may change the perceived effectiveness of one group's surveillance of another, the permissible familiarity of exchange, the frequency and intensity of contact, and the efficacy of customary tests for truth and deception.”
― Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century

“It argues that the early history of electric media is less the evolution of technical efficiencies in communication than a series of arenas for negotiating issues crucial to the conduct of social life; among them, who is inside and outside, who may speak, who may not, and who has authority and may be believed.”
― Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century