The Languages of Edison's Light - Rilegato

Bazerman, Charles

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 026202456X ISBN 13: 9780262024563

Casa editrice: Mit Pr, 1999

Riassunto

Technology is business, and dealing with the media, the public, financiers, and government agencies can be as important to an invention's success as effective product development. To understand how rhetoric works in technology, one cannot do better than to start with the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison and the incandescent light bulb.Charles Bazerman tells the story of the emergence of electric light as one of symbols and communication. He examines how Edison and his colleagues represented light and power to themselves and to others as the technology was transformed from an idea to a daily fact of life. He looks at the rhetoric used to create meaning and value for the emergent technology in the laboratory, in patent offices and courts, in financial markets, and in boardrooms, city halls, newspapers, and the consumer marketplace. Along the way he describes the social and communicative arrangements that shaped and transformed the world in which Edison acted. He portrays Edison, both the individual and the corporation, as a self-conscious social actor whose rhetorical groundwork was crucial to the technology's material realization and success.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Mit Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 026202456X
• ISBN 13: 9780262024563
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 416
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile