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Cargando... America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940por Claude S. Fischer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. There is a distinct parallel between the history of the adoption of the telephone and the history of the growth of the Internet. Fischer's book shows how the telephone began as a broadcast system but soon became a vital communication system for businesses and professionals. Early telephone companies were horrified to find that people were using the phone for personal communication (inviting friends over, etc.). The companies insisted that it was only to be used for business. In the end, the social aspect won out. Although phone companies grew up in urban areas, rural communities often had to cobble together their own rudimentary phone systems. (Remember BBS's?) These eventually became swallowed up by telephone companies, until we arrived at the monopoly situation of the mid-20th century. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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The telephone looms large in our lives, as ever present in modern societies as cars and television. Claude Fischer presents the first social history of this vital but little-studied technology--how we encountered, tested, and ultimately embraced it with enthusiasm. Using telephone ads, oral histories, telephone industry correspondence, and statistical data, Fischer's work is a colorful exploration of how, when, and why Americans started communicating in this radically new manner. Studying three California communities, Fischer uncovers how the telephone became integrated into the private worlds and community activities of average Americans in the first decades of this century. Women were especially avid in their use, a phenomenon which the industry first vigorously discouraged and then later wholeheartedly promoted. Again and again Fischer finds that the telephone supported a wide-ranging network of social relations and played a crucial role in community life, especially for women, from organizing children's relationships and church activities to alleviating the loneliness and boredom of rural life. Deftly written and meticulously researched, America Calling adds an important new chapter to the social history of our nation and illuminates a fundamental aspect of cultural modernism that is integral to contemporary life. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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