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MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
502

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Table of Contents

Part 1. Alternative Paths of Development: The Early Years Page 11 Chapter 1. The Sociology of Early Telephone Usage Page 15 Chapter 2. The Pleasure Telephone: A Chapter in the Prehistory of the Media Page 40 Chapter 3. The British Experience. 1876-1912 : The Impact of the Telephone During the Years of Delay Page 69 Chapter 4. The Birth of the Telephone and Economic Crisis: The Slow Death of the Monologue in French Society Page 97 Chapter 5. The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change Page 112 Chapter 6. Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone Page 127 Chapter 7. The Telephone and Society in the Past 100 Years Page 159 Part 2. The Telephone in Life Page 197 Chapter 8. Our Sixth-and-a-Half Sense Page 200 Chapter 9. The First and Only Century of Telephone Literature Page 208 Chapter 10. The Telephone and the Uses of Time Page 225 Chapter 11. Latent Functions of the Telephone: What Missing the Extension Means Page 246 Chapter 12. Women and the Switchboard Page 262 Chapter 13. The Telephone in New (and Old) Communities Page 281 Part 3. The Telephone and The Ciy Page 299 Chapter 14. Megalopolis and Antipolis: The Telephone and the Structure of the City Page 303 Chapter 15. The Telephone and The Evolution of the American Metropolitan System Page 318 Chapter 16. Urban Growth and the Development of the Telephone: Some Relationships at the Turn of the Century Page 342 Part 4. The Telephone and Human Interaction Page 371 Chapter 17. Silent Actors: Communication Networks for Development Page 374 Chapter 18. Comparing Telephone with Face-to-Face Contact Page 386 Chapter 19. Identification and Recognition in Interactional Openings Page 415 Part 5. Social Uses of the Telephone Page 451 Chapter 20. The Use of the Telephone in Counseling and Crisis Intervention Page 454 Chapter 21. Telephone and Instructional Communications Page 473

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Includes bibliographies and index.

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Cambridge, Mass
Series
MIT Bicentennial studies ; 1

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Dewey Decimal Class
301.16/1
Library of Congress
HE8735 .S65

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viii, 502 p. :
Number of pages
502

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OL4537978M
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socialimpactofte00pool
ISBN 10
0262160668
ISBN 13
9780262660488
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77004110
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2875378
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2481896
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5231348

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