| Description |
502pages |
| Series |
MIT Bicentennial studies ; 1 |
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MIT Bicentennial studies ; 1
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| Contents |
1. Alternative paths of development: the early years Bell's electrical toy: what's the use? the sociology of early telephone usage / Sidney H. Aronson -- The pleasure telephone: a chapter in the prehistory of the media / Asa Briggs -- The British experience 1876-1912: the impact of the telephone during the years of delay / Charles R. Perry -- The birth of the telephone and economic crisis: the slow death of the monologue in French society / Jacques Attali, Yves Stourdze -- The telephone system: creator of mobility and social change / Colin Cherry -- Foresight and hindsight: the case of the telephone / Ithiel de Sola Pool, Craig decker, Stephen Dizard, Kay Israel, Pamela Rubin, Barry Weinstein -- The telephone and society in the past 100 years / John R. Pierce -- 2. The telephone in life Our sixth-and-a-half sense / Henry M. Boettinger -- The first and only century of telephone literature / John Brooks -- The telephone and the uses of time / Martin Mayer -- Latent functions of the telephone: what missing the extension means / Alan H. Wurtzel, Colin Turner -- Women and the switchboard / Brenda Maddox -- The telephone in new (and old) communities / Suzanne Keller -- 3. The telephone and the city Megalopolis and antipolis: the telephone and the structure of the city / Jean Gottmann -- The telephone and the evolution of the American metropolitan system / Ronald Abler -- Urban growth and the development of the telephone: some relationships at the turn of the century / J. Alan Moyer -- 4. The telephone and human interaction Silent actors: communication networks for development / Bertil Thorngren -- Comparing telephone with face-to-face contact / A.A.L. Reid -- Identification and recognition in interactional openings / Emanuel A. Schegloff -- 5. Social uses of the telephone The use of the telephone in counseling and crisis intervention / David Lester -- Telephone and instructional communications / Paladugu V. Rao |
| Analysis |
Society Effects of telephones |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Telephone -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Pool, Ithiel de Sola, 1917-1984.
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| LC no. |
77004110 |
| ISBN |
0262160668 |
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