When Old Technologies Were New

Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing
by Rachel Plotnick
Published 24 Sep 2018

The latter features a number of chapters on historical narratives of touch and technology, but these essays focus on keys and typing rather than the broader set of changes in hand practices, hand environments, and hand relationships as detailed in Power Button. 5. See Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). 6. For a useful explication of the term “digital” in the digital age as referring to hands and digital computing, see Benjamin Peters, “Digital,” in Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture, ed.

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“What One Electric Bell Did,” Galveston Daily News, November 4, 1889: 6. 105. Barnard, “Some Queer Houses,” 2. 106. “Odd Phases of Chicago Life as Presented to an Observer in a Single Day,” Chicago Daily Tribune, May 4, 1896: 1. 107. Conflicts often occurred between expert and layperson groups, creating “in” and “out” groups. See Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988). 108. “Peculiar Electrical Accident,” Medical News 85, no. 23 (1904): 1092. 109. James Lee Humfreville, Twenty Years among Our Savage Indians: A Record of Personal Experiences, Observations, and Adventures among the Indians of the Wild West (Hartford, CT: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897), 592. 110. 

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Schaeffer, “Grand Opening Ceremony,” Pennsylvania School Journal 42 (1893): 13. 21. Arthur E. Kennelly, “The Evolution of Electric and Magnetic Physics,” in Evolution in Science, Philosophy, and Art, ed. Brooklyn Ethical Association (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1891), 153. 22. Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 151. 23. F. Herbert Stead, “An Englishman’s Impressions at the Fair,” Review of Reviews 8 (1893): 32. 24. Schaeffer, “Grand Opening Ceremony,” 13. 25. “Mrs. Cleveland’s Touch,” North American, August 24, 1886. 26. 

Age of the City: Why Our Future Will Be Won or Lost Together
by Ian Goldin and Tom Lee-Devlin
Published 21 Jun 2023

Chapter 6 – Cities, Cyberspace and the Future of Community 1 Turner, F., 2006, From Counterculture to Cyberculture (University of Chicago Press), p. 13. 2 Authors’ calculations based on General Social Survey data. 3 Rajan, The Third Pillar. 4 Putnam, R., 2000, Bowling Alone (Simon & Schuster). 5 Ibid. 6 Haidt, J., 2022, ‘Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid’, The Atlantic. 7 McLuhan, M., 1962, The Gutenberg Galaxy (University of Toronto Press). 8 Marvin, C., 1988, When Old Technologies Were New (Oxford University Press), pp. 199–200. 9 Ibid. 10 Deibert, R., 1997, Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation (Columbia University Press). 11 Anderson, B., 1983, Imagined Communities (Verso). 12 Prior, M., 2007, Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections (Cambridge University Press), p. 1. 13 Pool, I., 1983, Forecasting the Telephone (Praeger). 14 Fischer, C., 2007, ‘Technology and society: historical complexities’, Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 67, No. 1. 15 Chen, W., 2013, ‘Internet use, online communication, and ties in Americans’ networks’, Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 31, No. 4. 16 Haidt, ‘Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid’. 17 Van Alstyne, M. and Brynjolfsson, E., 1997, ‘Electronic communities: global village or cyberbalkans’, Economic Theory. 18 Sunstein, C., 2007, ‘Neither Hayek nor Habermas’, Public Choice, Vol. 134. 19 Tempest, K., 2021, On Connection (Faber & Faber), p. 61. 20 Bor, A. and Bang Petersen, M., 2021, ‘The psychology of online political hostility: a comprehensive, cross-national test of the mismatch hypothesis’, American Political Science Review, Vol. 116, No. 1. 21 Ibid. 22 Prapotnik, K., et al., 2019, ‘Social media as information channel’, Austrian Journal of Political Science. 23 Grant, A., Twitter, 29 August 2021, 15:03. 24 Cho, J., et al., 2020, ‘Do search algorithms endanger democracy?

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Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media
by Tarleton Gillespie
Published 25 Jun 2018

Facebook publicized the vote only the second time around, with an email to all users, perhaps to avoid a binding decision they didn’t want. Ryan Tate, “How You Killed Facebook Democracy: A Short History,” Wired, December 10, 2012, https://www.wired.com/2012/12/you-killed-facebook-democracy/. 17Kelty, “Geeks, Social Imaginaries, and Recursive Publics.” 18Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New; Douglas, Inventing American Broadcasting; Wu, The Master Switch. 19Silverstone, Media and Morality, 167. BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKER, AMELIA, AND BRIAN BEATON. 2016. “Software Update Unrest: The Recent Happenings around Tinder and Tesla.” In Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Proceedings of the 49th Annual Conference, 1891–1900.

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The Innovation Illusion: How So Little Is Created by So Many Working So Hard
by Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel
Published 3 Oct 2016

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Victorian Internet
by Tom Standage
Published 1 Jan 1998

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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
by Fred Turner
Published 31 Aug 2006

Finally, many analysts have focused on the role of the press, both professional and popular, in shaping popular perceptions of new technologies. As Carolyn Marvin has shown in the case of electricity, for instance, the press can serve as both a powerful shaper of emerging technologies and a deep repository of the public’s hopes and fears for the new devices. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New. 12. Tesler, interview, July 26, 2001; Allison, interview, July 26, 2004. 13. For an overview of the traditional accounts and a critical study of the field, see Schudson, Sociology of News. Schudson, in Discovering the News, identifies journalistic norms as historical constructions. 14.

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The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 31 Mar 2014

Brock, The Telecommunications Industry: The Dynamics of Market Structure (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981), 161. 41. “Wireline Local Market Concentration,” The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information, http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/filemgr?file_id=739241 (accessed June 19, 2013). 42. Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 164. 43. David E. Nye, Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880–1940 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991), 239. 44. Ibid., 186. 45. Henry Ford and Samuel Crowther, Edison as I Know Him (New York: Cosmopolitan Books, 1930), 30. 46.

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The Battery: How Portable Power Sparked a Technological Revolution
by Henry Schlesinger
Published 16 Mar 2010

Reddy, Ph.D., “Battery Power for the Future: Is the Energy Output of Batteries Reaching Its Limit?” Battery Power Products & Technology, March/April 2008. ———. Handbook of Batteries. 3d ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002. “Marvelous Electrical Inventions Displayed, Attractions at a ‘Conversazione’ at Columbia University.” New York Times, April 13, 1901. Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking about Electricity Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Massie, Keith, and Stephen D. Perry. “Hugo Gernsback and Radio Magazines: An Influential Intersection in Broadcast History.” Journal of Radio Studies 9, no. 2 (2002). McElroy, Gil.

The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
by Jeremy Rifkin
Published 31 Dec 2009

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1977. p. 89. 25 Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. p. 12. 26 Landes, David S. Revolution in Time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983. pp. 285-286. 27 Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New: Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. p. 64. 28 Ibid. p. 87. 29 Ibid. p. 163. 30 Ibid. p. 164. 31 Ibid. p. 11. 32 Nye, David E. Electrifying America: Social Meanings of a New Technology, 1880-1940. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991. p. 239. 33 Ibid. p. 186. 34 Ibid. 35 Ford, Henry, and Samuel Crowther.

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The Cultural Logic of Computation
by David Golumbia
Published 31 Mar 2009

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The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
by Brian Merchant
Published 19 Jun 2017

Kristina Woolsey, the onetime director of Apple’s Multimedia Lab, and Fabrice Florin, a former executive producer at Apple, provided context. Herbert Casson’s The History of the Telephone—published in 1910 and available to read for free on iBooks—was a fascinating look at telephony from the same perspective we have of the iPhone today, a decade or so after its popularization. Carolyn Marvin’s When Old Technologies Were New provided context about the dawn of the electric age. Agar’s Constant Touch was a reference on the evolution of mobile technologies. Albert Robida’s The Twentieth Century is a portentous look at how audiovisual technologies might evolve. Other sources include “As We May Think” by Vannevar Bush, which imagines the future of human knowledge augmentation and the memex; J.C.R.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick
Published 1 Mar 2011

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The Power Makers
by Maury Klein
Published 26 May 2008

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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living Since the Civil War (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
by Robert J. Gordon
Published 12 Jan 2016

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