"This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée. Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issu...

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Other Authors:	Balbi, Gabriele 1979- (Editor), Leggero, Roberto (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; London Routledge 2025
Series:	Routledge studies in the history of science, technology and medicine 53
Subjects:	Geschichte Telekommunikation Techniksoziologie Langzeit Kommunikationstechnik Communication / History Communication / Social aspects Information / Histoire Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	"This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée. Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of communication maintenance. Among these are the struggles to keep communication infrastructures functioning, the hidden work of maintenance done by both experts and non-experts such as everyday users, the political significance of maintaining communications (or not maintaining them), and the different habits and significance of maintenance in different times and world regions. The forms of communication covered include broadcasting, telecommunications such as the telegraph and telephone, mostly forgotten media like pneumatic tubes, transportation infrastructures, maps as used as tools to politically control land, the clock as a medium and a material artifact, and many more. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication and media studies, the history of science and technology, general history, geography, maintenance studies, and other related disciplines"--
Physical Description:	x, 212 Seiten 24 cm
ISBN:	9781032543697 9781032543680