| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Boxes; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Why Study the History of Digital Media and How?; 1.1 Contextualizing Digital in Contemporary Societies; 1.2 Theoretical Paths; 1.3 A Few of the Benefits of a Digital Media History; 2 The Computer; 2.1 The "Mother" of All Digital Devices; 2.2 The Mechanical Computer Age and the Social Need for Calculation; 2.3 The Mainframe Age; 2.4 The Personal Computer Age; 2.5 The Post-PC Age; 3 The Internet; 3.1 What We Mean by the Internet |
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3.2 The Military Influence3.3 The Academic Influence; 3.4 The Counter-cultural Influence; 3.5 The Public Service Influence; 3.6 The Commercial Influence; 3.7 The Social Influence; 3.8 Re-reading the Internet in Historical Perspective; 4 The Mobile Phone; 4.1 The Origins of the Mobile Phone; 4.2 Digital Rebirth and Growing up; 4.3 GSM: The European Digital-Bureaucratic Miracle; 4.4 A Concise History of SMS; 4.5 A New Paradigm: 3G, Smartphones and Mobile Internet; 4.6 The Global Mobile Phone Fever; 4.7 Sociocultural Implications of Mobile Connectivity; 5 The Digitization of Analog Media |
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5.1 Intermediality and the Digital Media Pattern5.2 Music; 5.3 Publishing: Books and Newsmaking; 5.4 Cinema and Video; 5.5 Photography; 5.6 Television; 5.7 Radio; 5.8 Digitization and the Interweaving of Different Media; Conclusion: Myths and Counter-hegemonic Narratives in Digital Media History; Chronology; Appendix: Statistical and Quantitative Data; Acronyms; References; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Digital communications -- History
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Digital media -- History
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Digital communications.
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Digital media.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Magaudda, Paolo
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| ISBN |
9781351807234 |
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1351807234 |
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