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- Describes how a technology, specifically the wireless, adheres to cultural values
- Provides the first rhetorical analysis of Marconi's wireless explaining how this historical technology fits modernist values of the early 20th century
- Shows how to apply a rhetorical lens to new technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of English, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA
Aaron A. Toscano
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology
Authors: Aaron A. Toscano
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3977-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3976-5Published: 13 February 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-3977-2Published: 09 February 2012
Series ISSN: 2212-6368
Series E-ISSN: 2212-6376
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 145
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Sciences, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Philosophy, general