Media Technology and Society offers a detailed record of the historical backdrop of interchanges innovations, from the broadcast to the Internet. Winston contends that the advancement of new media, from the phone to PCs, satellite, camcorders, and CD-ROM, is the result of a solid playoff between social need and concealment: the unwritten "law" by which innovations are brought into society.
In the 1930s, US-based radio systems extended rapidly into Canada. The social impact of prevalently American…
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