Remote control:

"While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls revea...

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Main Author: Benson-Allott, Caetlin Anne 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York ; London ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2015
Series:Object lessons
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
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Summary:"While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. By emphasizing volume control, channel shifting, and multi-function management, they tell a story about our experience of mass media, culture, and domestic life. Remote controls reveal the deep impact electronics design has on our self-perception and world-view. This book offers lively analyses of the remote control's material, literary, and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory can change the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them"..
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xx, 157 Seiten Illustrationen 17 cm
ISBN:9781623569976
9781623563110

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