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    Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

Aaron Toscano
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      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Aaron Toscano EAN: 9789400739765 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-02-13 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Society and Social Sciences, Cultural studies, Sociology, Philosophy

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      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.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Aaron Toscano EAN: 9789400739765 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 454 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer DATE PUBLISHED: 2012-02-13 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Society and Social Sciences, Cultural studies, Sociology, Philosophy

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