New Books in Technology |

Eileen Le Han
Micro-Blogging Memories
Weibo and Collective Remembering in Contemporary China
Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

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Since its invention, the Internet has become a fundamental part of our lives. Since the invention of social media, communicative technologies have changed our lives and influenced journalism and politics in ways that were unimaginable just ten years ago. In… Read More

Simone Muller, “Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks” (Columbia UP, 2016)

Simone Muller
Wiring the World
The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks
Columbia University Press, 2016

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Simone Muller’s Wiring the World: The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks (Columbia University Press, 2016) is a superb account of the laying of submarine telegraph cables in the nineteenth century and the battles over them in the… Read More

Thomas Hazlett, “The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology” (Yale UP, 2017)

Thomas Hazlett
The Political Spectrum
The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone
Yale University Press, 2017

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What better way to explore the history of media regulation than to go on a journey with the former chief economist of the FCC? Prior to introduction of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos.… Read More

Andre Sirois
Hip-Hop DJs and the Evolution of Technology
Cultural Exchange, Innovation, and Democratization
Peter Lang, 2016

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What is the role of the deejay in shaping hip-hop? Did deejays shape the technology that is used to create the music or were they simply consumers of mixers, faders, and microphones? What is the relationship between deejays and the… Read More

Marilyn Palmer and Ian West, “Technology and the Country House” (Historic England Publishing/U.Chicago, 2016)

Marilyn Palmer and Ian West
Technology in the Country House

University of Chicago Press, 2016

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For the aristocracy in Britain and Ireland, country house living was dependent upon the labors of men and women who performed innumerable chores involving cooking, cleaning, and the basic operation of the household. In the 18th century, however, the Industrial… Read More