Aaron Toscano

Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values-speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today's practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book's main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress-speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity.

Produktdetails

• SpringerBriefs in Sociology
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 80064743, 978-94-007-3976-5
• 2012
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9789400739765
• ISBN-10: 9400739761
• Artikelnr.: 34626842

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Chapter 1. The Rhetoric of Technical Communication.- Chapter 2. Analyzing Technology to Uncover Social Values, Attitudes, and Practices.- Chapter 3. Marconi's Representations of the Wireless.- Chapter 4. Popular Press Representations of Marconi's Wireless.- Chapter 5. Tropes of Progress in F.T. Marinetti's Early Futurist Texts.- Conclusion.- Notes.- References.