Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée

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Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Roberto Leggero (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)

Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée

Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland), Roberto Leggero (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)

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English

Routledge
19 September 2024

Communication studies; European history; Social & cultural history; Industrialisation & industrial history; History of science

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée.

Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of communication maintenance. Among these are the struggles to keep communication infrastructures functioning, the hidden work of maintenance done by both experts and non-experts such as everyday users, the political significance of maintaining communications (or not maintaining them), and the different habits and significance of maintenance in different times and world regions. The forms of communication covered include broadcasting, telecommunications such as the telegraph and telephone, digital and popular media as computers and mobile phones, mostly forgotten media like pneumatic tubes, transportation infrastructures, maps as used as tools to politically control land, the clock as a medium and a material artifact, and many more.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication and media studies, the history of science and technology, general history, geography, maintenance studies, and other related disciplines.

The Introduction, Chapter 5 and 8 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Edited by: Gabriele Balbi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana Switzerland), Roberto Leggero (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 460g
ISBN: 9781032543697
ISBN 10: 1032543698
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 19 September 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gabriele Balbi is Full Professor at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland), where he acts as Prorector for Education and Students’ Experience. His latest book is The Digital Revolution: A Short History of an Ideology (2023). Roberto Leggero is Lecturer Researcher at USI Università della Svizzera italiana (Switzerland) and a founding member of the Italian Society for Environmental History. His works include “The Construction of Local Political Identity in Lake and River Communities in North-West Italy (12th to 14th C.)” in Wim Blockmans et al., Empowering Interactions (2016).