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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

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographies and index.

Published in
Cambridge, Mass
Series
MIT Bicentennial studies ; 1

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 502 p. :
Number of pages
502

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4537978M
Internet Archive
socialimpactofte00pool
ISBN 10
0262160668
ISBN 13
9780262660488
LCCN
77004110
OCLC/WorldCat
2875378
Library Thing
2481896
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1604/9780262160667, 10.1604/9780262660488
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