Towns and communication.: Volume 1, Communication in towns /

The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost touch in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass...

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Körperschaft: International Commission for the History of Towns
Weitere Verfasser: Budak, Neven, Eliassen, Finn-Einar, Szende, Katalin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] : University of Akron Press, 2011, ©2009.
Ausgabe:North American ed.
Schriftenreihe:Towns and communication
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Zusammenfassung:The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost touch in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass communication, the way we ordered and embedded knowledge and the possibilities of social interaction were defined by the extended human experience of living in towns. Can this experience be replicated with new technologies?
Beschreibung:1 online resource (298 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781935603580
1935603582
9781935603597
1935603590

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