Graduate Seminar in Communication Theory, Fall 2005, SPCM 529 CS, Prof. Sandvig.
COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
 
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(***) America Calling

Claude Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. University of California Press, 1994 (reprint edition).

Related work by Fischer:

Fischer, C. S. (1985). Studying Technology in Social Life. In M. Castells (Ed.), Technology, Space, and Society: Emerging Trends. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.

Fischer, C. S. (1987). 'Touch someone': The telephone industry discovers sociability. Technology and Culture, 29(1), 32-61.

Fischer, C. S. (1992). America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Book reviews of this book:

by Robert C. Post. The American Historical Review, Vol. 99, No. 1. (Feb., 1994), pp. 310-311.


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