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041			_aEnglish
082	0	0	_a001.510 _219 _bWIN
100	1		_aWinston, Brian.
245	1	0	_aMisunderstanding media / _cBrian Winston.
260			_aCambridge, Mass. : _bHarvard University Press, _c1986.
300			_axi, 419 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
504			_aBibliography: p. 383-406.
505			_t1. Breakages Limited 2. Fugitive Pictures 3. ‘Inventions for Casting Up Sums, Very Pretty’ 4. Digression – ‘The Most Remarkable Technology’ 5. Little Bird of Union and Understanding 6. Communicate by Word of Mouth
520			_aThe 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.
650		0	_aMass media
650		0	_aCommunication
650		0	_xTechnological innovations _xHistory.
650		0	_xTechnological innovations _xHistory.
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