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Author : Kristen Haring
Release : 2007
Genre : Amateur radio stations
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Book Rating : 558/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ham Radio's Technical Culture by : Kristen Haring
Download or read book Ham Radio's Technical Culture written by Kristen Haring. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of ham radio culture: how ham radio enthusiasts formed identity and community through their technical hobby, from the 1930s through the Cold War.
Author : Hilary Geoghegan
Release : 2008
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Book Synopsis Book Review: Ham Radio's Technical Culture. By K. Haring. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2007. ISBN 0262083558 by : Hilary Geoghegan
Download or read book Book Review: Ham Radio's Technical Culture. By K. Haring. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2007. ISBN 0262083558 written by Hilary Geoghegan. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carolyn Birdsall
Release : 2023-08-24
Genre : Music
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Book Rating : 990/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Radiophilia by : Carolyn Birdsall
Download or read book Radiophilia written by Carolyn Birdsall. This book was released on 2023-08-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century ago, the emergence of radio, along with organized systems of broadcasting, sparked a global fascination with the 'wonder' of sound transmission and reception. The thrilling experience of tuning in to the live sounds of this new medium prompted strong affective responses in its listeners. This book introduces a new concept of radiophilia, defined as the attachment to, or even a love of radio. Treating radiophilia as a dynamic cultural phenomenon, it unpacks the various pleasures associated with radio and its sounds, the desire to discover and learn new things via radio, and efforts to record, re-experience, and share radio. Surveying 100 years of radio from early wireless through to digital audio formats like podcasting, the book engages in debates about fandom, audience participation, listening experience, material culture, and how media relate to affect and emotions.
Author : Anique Hommels
Release : 2014-03-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 801/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Vulnerability in Technological Cultures by : Anique Hommels
Download or read book Vulnerability in Technological Cultures written by Anique Hommels. This book was released on 2014-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Novel technologies and scientific advancements offer not only opportunities but risks. Technological systems are vulnerable to human error and technical malfunctioning that have far-reaching consequences: one flipped switch can cause a cascading power failure across a networked electric grid. Yet, once addressed, vulnerability accompanied by coping mechanisms may yield a more flexible and resilient society. This book investigates vulnerability, in both its negative and positive aspects, in technological cultures. The contributors argue that viewing risk in terms of vulnerability offers a novel approach to understanding the risks and benefits of science and technology. Such an approach broadens conventional risk analysis by connecting to issues of justice, solidarity, and livelihood, and enabling comparisons between the global north and south. The book explores case studies that range from agricultural practices in India to neonatal intensive care medicine in Western hospitals; these cases, spanning the issues addressed in the book, illustrate what vulnerability is and does. The book offers conceptual frameworks for empirical description and analysis of vulnerability that elucidate its ambiguity, context dependence, and constructed nature. Finally, the book addresses the implications of these analyses for the governance of vulnerability, proposing a more reflexive way of dealing with vulnerability in technological cultures"--
Author : Darin Barney
Release : 2016-11-01
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age by : Darin Barney
Download or read book The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age written by Darin Barney. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just what is the “participatory condition”? It is the situation in which taking part in something with others has become both environmental and normative. The fact that we have always participated does not mean we have always lived under the participatory condition. What is distinctive about the present is the extent to which the everyday social, economic, cultural, and political activities that comprise simply being in the world have been thematized and organized around the priority of participation. Structured along four axes investigating the relations between participation and politics, surveillance, openness, and aesthetics, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age comprises fifteen essays that explore the promises, possibilities, and failures of contemporary participatory media practices as related to power, Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring uprisings, worker-owned cooperatives for the post-Internet age; paradoxes of participation, media activism, open source projects; participatory civic life; commercial surveillance; contemporary art and design; and education. This book represents the most comprehensive and transdisciplinary endeavor to date to examine the nature, place, and value of participation in the digital age. Just as in 1979, when Jean-François Lyotard proposed that “the postmodern condition” was characterized by the questioning of historical grand narratives, The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age investigates how participation has become a central preoccupation of our time. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Pomona College; Bart Cammaerts, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); Nico Carpentier, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB – Free University of Brussels) and Charles University in Prague; Julie E. Cohen, Georgetown University; Kate Crawford, MIT; Alessandro Delfanti, University of Toronto; Christina Dunbar-Hester, University of Southern California; Rudolf Frieling, California College of Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute; Salvatore Iaconesi, La Sapienza University of Rome and ISIA Design Florence; Jason Edward Lewis, Concordia University; Rafael Lozano-Hemmer; Graham Pullin, University of Dundee; Trebor Scholz, The New School in New York City; Cayley Sorochan, McGill University; Bernard Stiegler, Institute for Research and Innovation in Paris; Krzysztof Wodiczko, Harvard Graduate School of Design; Jillian C. York.
