Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Balbi, Gabriele; Leggero, Roberto

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040149553
• Artikelnr.: 72274265

Autorenporträt

Gabriele Balbi is Full Professor at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), where he acts as Prorector for Education and Students' Experience. His latest book is The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology (2023). Roberto Leggero is Lecturer Researcher at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) and a founding member of the Italian Society for Environmental History. His works include "The Construction of Local Political Identity in Lake and River Communities in North-West Italy (12th to 14th C.)" in Wim Blockmans et al., Empowering Interactions (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Communication Studies Long for Maintenance Cultures: A Theoretical
Introduction to the Book Part 1: Temporalities 1. The Clock of the Long Now
in Longue Durée: Maintaining a Communication "Cool Tool" Through Millennia
2. Endless Frontiers of Maintenance: The Longue Durée of Communication
Infrastructure in the United States 3. Sense Perception and the Maintenance
of Pneumatic Mail Tubes in the Longue Durée: Feeling the Air, Preventing
and Fixing Failures 4. The "Technical Time" of the Luxembourgish Telephone
System Reflections on the Transformative Power of Maintenance Part 2:
Theorizing 5. Interruptions, Divestments and Reactivations of Maintenance
in the Alpine Middle Ages: A Long-Term View 6. Maps as Maintenance.
Designing and Controlling the Kingdom of Sardinia and the State of Milan's
Boundaries and Rivers in the 18th Century 7. Communicative Redundancy as a
Maintenance Resource. The Dose Makes the Poison 8. We Are All Maintainers:
Everyday Practices of Media Maintenance in the Domestication of
Technologies Part 3: Infrastructuring 9. A Low Place in High Country:
Maintaining Infrastructural Clearance Along the Backbone of the World 10.
Large-Scale Infrastructure System in Lisbon: Politics of Repair and
Maintenance in the European Periphery in the 20th Century 11. Maintenance
of a Monopoly: The Digitalization of the Telephone Network as an Attempt to
Preserve the Telecommunications Monopoly for the Longue Durée