Coding and representation from the nineteenth century to the present : scrambled messages / edited by Anne Chapman and Natalie Hume.
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TextSeries: Routledge studies in cultural historyPublisher: New York : Routledge, 2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781003169154; 1003169155; 9781000383652; 1000383652; 9781000383621; 1000383628Subject(s): Telecommunication -- History | Telecommunication -- Social aspects | Communication and culture | HISTORY / General | HISTORY / Europe / General | HISTORY / Modern / GeneralDDC classification: 384.09 LOC classification: TK5102.2Online resources: Taylor & Francis | OCLC metadata license agreement Summary: "An exploration of trends and cultures relating to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866-1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures"-- Provided by publisher.
"An exploration of trends and cultures relating to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866-1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures"-- Provided by publisher.
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