TY - BOOK ID - 7839849 TI - Marconi's wireless and the rhetoric of a new technology PY - 2012 SN - 9400739761 940073977X 9786613709349 1280798955 PB - Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Sciences - General KW - Telegraph, Wireless KW - Technological innovations KW - Telecommunication KW - Marconi system KW - History. KW - Social aspects. KW - Society and telecommunication KW - Wireless telegraph KW - Social sciences. KW - Culture KW - Philosophy. KW - Social Sciences. KW - Social Sciences, general. KW - Regional and Cultural Studies. KW - Philosophy, general. KW - Study and teaching. KW - Telegraph KW - Coherer KW - Radio KW - Culture-Study and teaching. KW - Philosophy (General). KW - Behavioral sciences KW - Human sciences KW - Sciences, Social KW - Social science KW - Social studies KW - Civilization KW - Culture—Study and teaching. KW - Mental philosophy KW - Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7839849 AB - This book examines the discourse surrounding the wireless, created by the Anglo-Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. The wireless excited early twentieth-century audiences before it even became a viable black box technology. The wireless adhered to modernist values—speed, efficiency, militarization, and progress. Language surrounding the wireless is a form of technical communication, overlooked by today’s practitioners. This book establishes a broader definition for technical communication by examining a selection of the discourse surrounding Marconi's wireless. The book’s main themes are the following: 1) technical communication is all discourse surrounding technology, 2) the field of technical communication (or technical writing) should incorporate analyses of discourse surrounding technologies into its epistemology, 3) the wireless is a product of the society from which it comes (early twentieth-century Western civilization), and 4) the discourse surrounding the wireless is infused with tropes of progress—speed, efficiency, evolution, and ahistoricity. ER -