Networking
Subtitle: Communicating with Bodies and Machines in the Nineteenth Century (Studies in Literature and Science)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: November 8, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780472112135
Subjects: Communication Studies; Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; c 1800 to c 1900; Telecommunication; Telecommunication (Engineering); Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Literature: Classics; Social Aspects; Telecommunications; Technology / Social Aspects; 19th century; History
Description: "This new interdisciplinary study investigates the scientific and cultural roots of contemporary conceptions of the network, including computer information systems, the human nervous system, and communication technology. Laura Otis demonstrates that those roots are centuries old, not a modern conception. She shows how nineteenth-century neurobiologists, engineers, and fiction writers influenced each other's ideas about communication.

Placing our own comparisons of nerve and computer networks in perspective, Otis explores their emergence in early analogies linking nerves and telegraphs."--BOOK JACKET.