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Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet de Dan Schiller

Crossed Wires: The Conflicted History of US Telecommunications, From The Post Office To The Internet

Autor Dan Schiller
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 apr 2023

Bazându-ne pe cercetările de arhivă de amploare și pe documentele secundare analizate de Dan Schiller pe parcursul a patru decenii, observăm în Crossed Wires o reconstrucție magistrală a istoriei rețelelor de telecomunicații din Statele Unite. Publicată de Oxford University Press, această lucrare de peste 800 de pagini propune o perspectivă revizionistă, mutând accentul de pe determinismul tehnologic către conflictele sociale și politice care au modelat infrastructura informațională de la Oficiul Poștal până la internetul contemporan. Descoperim aici o analiză critică a modului în care rețelele au servit expansiunii economiei politice americane, funcționând adesea ca instrumente de putere internațională.

Suntem de părere că forța acestui volum rezidă în identificarea celor trei piloni care au ghidat dezvoltarea sistemelor: prioritatea absolută acordată utilizatorilor de business în detrimentul cetățenilor de rând, concentrarea pe circulația mărfurilor și tensiunea constantă dintre elitele decizionale și mișcările reformiste sau sindicale. Alternativă la Network Nation de Richard R. John pentru cursurile de istoria comunicațiilor sau economie politică, Crossed Wires are avantajul de a extinde analiza până în prezentul digital, oferind o viziune unitară asupra continuității ideologice din spatele schimbărilor tehnologice. În contextul operei sale anterioare, precum Information, Power, and Politics sau Telematics and Government, noul volum reprezintă sinteza definitivă a preocupărilor lui Schiller privind relația dintre capital, stat și infrastructură, rafinând conceptele de capitalism digital pe care autorul le-a explorat în lucrările sale de referință.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197639238
ISBN-10: 0197639232
Pagini: 832
Ilustrații: 20 b/w photographs; 1 table
Dimensiuni: 166 x 236 x 62 mm
Greutate: 1.28 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la nivel de master sau doctorat care doresc să înțeleagă mecanismele puterii din spatele infrastructurii digitale actuale. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă istorică riguroasă, învățând că internetul nu este un accident tehnologic, ci rezultatul unor decizii politice și economice vechi de două secole. Este o resursă esențială pentru oricine analizează politicile publice de comunicații și impactul lor social.

Despre autor

Dan Schiller este profesor emerit la Graduate School of Library and Information Science în cadrul University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Este o voce autoritară în studiul economiei politice a informației, fiind cunoscut la nivel internațional pentru volumul său influent „Digital Capitalism”. Cariera sa de peste 40 de ani este marcată de o investigație constantă a modului în care tehnologiile de comunicare sunt integrate în sistemele de piață globale. Prin Crossed Wires, Schiller își consolidează poziția de istoric de referință, legând analizele sale teoretice despre putere și politică de o documentare istorică exhaustivă a sistemelor americane.

Descriere

A sweeping, revisionist historical analysis of telecommunications networks, from the dawn of the republic to the 21st century.Telecommunications networks are vast, intricate, hugely costly systems for exchanging messages and information-within cities and across continents. From the Post Office and the telegraph to today's internet, these networks have sown domestic division while also acting as sources of international power. In Crossed Wires, Dan Schiller, who has conducted archival research on US telecommunications for more than forty years, recovers the extraordinary social history of the major network systems of the United States. Drawing on arrays of archival documents and secondary sources, Schiller reveals that this history has been shaped by sharp social and political conflict and is embedded in the larger history of an expansionary US political economy. Schiller argues that networks have enabled US imperialism through a a recurrent "American system" of cross-border communications. Three other key findings wind through the book. First, business users of networks--more than carriers, and certainly more than residential users--have repeatedly determined how telecommunications systems have developed. Second, despite their current importance for virtually every sphere of social life, networks have been consecrated above all to aiding the circulation of commodities. Finally, although the preferences of executives and officials have broadly determined outcomes, these elites have repeatedly had to contend against the ideas and organizations of workers, social movement activists, and other reformers. This authoritative and comprehensive revisionist history of US telecommunications argues that not technology but a dominative--and contested--political economy drove the evolution of this critical industry.

Recenzii

Crossed Wires offers a stellar interplay and tension between the everyday experiences of American post and telecommunications users and laborers of those huge entities, set in stark relief with the political economy of those same institutions as they deployed their reach and power with local, state, federal, and on occasion international governments and institutions. Understanding posts and telecommunications in the historical context of political economy is just as much about the workers, the users, and the public as about the politicians and the plutocrats. This book is brilliant and compelling. Let there be no doubt: Dan Schiller has penned a masterpiece.
Every generation or so a radical analysis emerges that forever changes how we understand information and communication systems. Dan Schiller, among our greatest historians of telecommunications, has written such a book. His deeply researched and beautifully written social history challenges dominant perspectives on digital media and promises to reframe ongoing policy debates. To understand how our core digital infrastructures became so commercially captured—and what's to be done to recover their democratic potential—we all must engage with this magisterial book.
With impressive breadth, and magnificent empirical command, Dan Schiller surveys the history of telecommunications policy and practice in the United States. The sheer span of the narrative is striking enough; the detailed outline of the ways in which corporate interests (and the goals of an aggressively expanding American economy) framed and distorted American communications policies over the course of two centuries is breath-taking. This is a 'must-read' book for all those striving to understand the contemporary pathologies (and prospects) of the American political system.
Grab a comfy chair and settle in for this magisterial work! Whether historicizing the early post office, public utilities, or digital routes, Schiller shows how a divided and power-laden society imprints network development and unearths the lively struggles that shaped US telecommunication. Crucial reading for understanding global network predicaments.
Schiller offers a detailed history of American telecommunications that also reads like a long-form story, with quotes from leading players and details of power plays conducted among competing parties...Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals.

Notă biografică

Dan Schiller studies the social and intellectual history of US and global communications as a part of the conflicted development of capitalism. After working at the University of Leicester, Temple University, UCLA, and UCSD, Dan Schiller finished his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is Professor Emeritus. His books include Telematics and Government; Theorizing Communication: A History; Digital Depression: Information Technology and Economic Crisis; and Digital Capitalism--a term which he coined in the 1990s. His articles and commentaries on contemporary communications have been published widely in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, and he co-edits the book series, The Geopolitics of Information, for the University of Illinois Press.