Title: Remote Control
Description: While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote controls shape our media devices and how we live with them.
Subjects: Television, Channel selectors, History, Television viewers, Psychology, Grazing (Television), Social aspects, Popular culture, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Television, psychological aspects, Television broadcasting, social aspects, Popular culture, united states, Television, history, Television--channel selectors--history, Television viewers--psychology, Television--social aspects, Popular culture--united states, Television--channel selectors, Tk6655.c5 b46 2015, 302.23/45, Lit006000 phi001000 soc052000, Cultural studies