Here's Amazon.com's listing..........Alex Kuskis When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century by Carolyn Marvin "Electrical professionals were the ambitious catalysts of an industrial shift from steam to electricity taking place in the United States and Western Europe at the..." (more) Editorial Reviews Product Description: In the history of electronic communication, the last quarter of the nineteenth century holds a special place, for it was during this period that the telephone, phonograph, electric light, wireless, and cinema were all invented. In When old Technologies Were New, Carolyn Marvin explores how two of these new inventions--the telephone and the electric light--were publicly envisioned at the end of the nineteenth century, as seen in specialized engineering journals and popular media. Marvin pays particular attention to the telephone, describing how it disrupted established social relations, unsettling customary ways of dividing the private person and family from the more public setting of the community. On the lighter side, she describes how people spoke louder when calling long distance, and how they worried about catching contagious diseases over the phone. A particularly powerful chapter deals with telephonic precursors of radio broadcasting--the "Telephone Herald" in New York and the "Telefon Hirmondo" of Hungary--and the conflict between the technological development of broadcasting and the attempt to impose a homogenous, ethnocentric variant of Anglo-Saxon culture on the public. While focusing on the way professionals in the electronics field tried to control the new media, Marvin also illuminates the broader social impact, presenting a wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining account of the early years of electronic media. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195063414/qid=1106865684/sr=2-1/ref=... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ulla Bunz" <bunz@scils.rutgers.edu> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:53 PM Subject: RE: [Air-l] development of social codes around a technology
Amanda, There's a book called "When old technologies were new" but I can't remember the author right now.
Also, I know that "hello" used to be considered vulgar and rude to use on the phone because it's originally a duck hunting shout, at least according to Naomi Baron. Baron, N. (2002). Who sets email style? Prescriptivism, coping strategies, and democratization of access. Information Society, 18(5), 403-413.
Hope this helps a little.
Ulla
---------------------------------------------------- Ulla Bunz Assistant Professor Department of Communication Rutgers University 4 Huntington Street New Brunswick, NJ 08901 Email: bunz@scils.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Amanda Lenhart Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:14 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] development of social codes around a technology
Hello AoIR list,
I'm at work on a MA thesis, and I'm searching for some literature on the development of social codes around new technologies, specifically technologies of communication. Particularly I'm looking for some historic context--how did/do things like "phone manners" evolve? How do we learn what's "rude" or "polite"? How did we decide that all caps in email means "yelling"? How localized is the development of these kinds of rules or codes? And are these codes constantly in flux or do they ever stabilize?
Any resources or places to look would be most helpful.
Thanks,
Amanda Lenhart MA Candidate Communications, Culture and Technology Georgetown University & Pew Internet & American Life Project
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