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Communication in Modern Social Ordering: History and Philosophy

Communication in Modern Social Ordering: History and Philosophy

Eriksson, Kai
Kai, Eriksson

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Technology & EngineeringGeneral ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1623568382
ISBN13: 9781623568382
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 28 2013
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Communication in Modern Social Ordering investigates the modern history of communication in relation to the thinking of the political community in the United States. By illustrating the intertwining of the technological developments in communication methods and its community-building effects, the different representations of society and their political implications are examined against the development of communication systems from the telegraph, to the telephone, to computer networks. It was the telegraph that made communication a continual process, thus freeing it from the rhythmical motion of the postal service and from physical transportation in general, and provided both a model and a mechanism of control. Using the theories of both Foucault and Heidegger to provide a lens for new investigation, the author studies not the meanings of communication and its logic as such but rather the conditions and structures that allow meanings and logic to be formulated in the first place.

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