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Marconi's Wireless and the Rhetoric of a New Technology [electronic resource] / by Aaron A. Toscano.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SpringerBriefs in SociologyPublisher: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012Description: XX, 145 p. 2 illus. online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789400739772
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Printed edition:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 300 23
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Contents:
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.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: 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.
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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.

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.