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The 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Sociology

• Full title: Misunderstanding Media
• Author: Brian Winston
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 424
• EAN: 9781138699984
• ISBN: 9781138699984
• ID: 10041906
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 748 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2016

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