This lively new study is a critical cultural history of communication technologies, from
railways and telegraphy to computers and the Internet, in which Rod Giblett argues that …

This book was very much a family affair. I am first and foremost grateful to Catherine
McKercher, my wife, best friend, and colleague, for hours of conversations that made the …

From the highly acclaimed author of WAYS OF BEING. We live in times of increasing
inscrutability. Our news feeds are filled with unverified, unverifiable speculation, much of it …

Lewis Mumford's imaginative and challenging work (1934) on technology and cultural
history opened a new scholarly agenda. As Mumford made clear, cultural history is not …

This book is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass
communication that have accelerated the advancement of human culture and society. A …

Interpreting the myths of the digital age: why we believed in the power of cyberspace to open
up a new world. The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments …

We all know it, we all say it, we all write it: it is hardly reasonable to believe that new
technologies are ipso facto, merely by virtue of their novelty and the possibilities for …

Too often the history of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is wrenched out
of the history of technology and presented as something altogether separate and therefore …

One new technology alters the structure of economies, and changes in fundamental ways
the day-to-day life of whole societies. The name of this new technology is sufficient to evoke …

“God, gold and glory!” Captured in a slogan, these are in fact the three basic imperatives in
the history of cultural diffusion. Why do men burst forth from their boundaries in search of …