The Social impact of the telephone
By: Ithiel de Sola Pool, editor.
Contributors: Pool, Ithiel de Sola, 1917-
Series: MIT Bicentennial studies ; 1
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9780262660488
Subjects: Telephone -- Social aspects -- Addresses, essays, lectures
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: Alternative Paths of Development: The Early Years
pagenum: 11; label: Chapter 1
title: The Sociology of Early Telephone Usage
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 2
title: The Pleasure Telephone: A Chapter in the Prehistory of the Media
pagenum: 40; label: Chapter 3
title: The British Experience. 1876-1912 : The Impact of the Telephone During the Years of Delay
pagenum: 69; label: Chapter 4
title: The Birth of the Telephone and Economic Crisis: The Slow Death of the Monologue in French Society
pagenum: 97; label: Chapter 5
title: The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change
pagenum: 112; label: Chapter 6
title: Foresight and Hindsight: The Case of the Telephone
pagenum: 127; label: Chapter 7
title: The Telephone and Society in the Past 100 Years
pagenum: 159; label: Part 2
title: The Telephone in Life
pagenum: 197; label: Chapter 8
title: Our Sixth-and-a-Half Sense
pagenum: 200; label: Chapter 9
title: The First and Only Century of Telephone Literature
pagenum: 208; label: Chapter 10
title: The Telephone and the Uses of Time
pagenum: 225; label: Chapter 11
title: Latent Functions of the Telephone: What Missing the Extension Means
pagenum: 246; label: Chapter 12
title: Women and the Switchboard
pagenum: 262; label: Chapter 13
title: The Telephone in New (and Old) Communities
pagenum: 281; label: Part 3
title: The Telephone and The Ciy
pagenum: 299; label: Chapter 14
title: Megalopolis and Antipolis: The Telephone and the Structure of the City
pagenum: 303; label: Chapter 15
title: The Telephone and The Evolution of the American Metropolitan System
pagenum: 318; label: Chapter 16
title: Urban Growth and the Development of the Telephone: Some Relationships at the Turn of the Century
pagenum: 342; label: Part 4
title: The Telephone and Human Interaction
pagenum: 371; label: Chapter 17
title: Silent Actors: Communication Networks for Development
pagenum: 374; label: Chapter 18
title: Comparing Telephone with Face-to-Face Contact
pagenum: 386; label: Chapter 19
title: Identification and Recognition in Interactional Openings
pagenum: 415; label: Part 5
title: Social Uses of the Telephone
pagenum: 451; label: Chapter 20
title: The Use of the Telephone in Counseling and Crisis Intervention
pagenum: 454; label: Chapter 21
title: Telephone and Instructional Communications
pagenum: 473