This work intends to contribute to an understanding of electronic communications technologies by explaining the technical ideas which underlie them. The technologies, from the telephone to the Internet, are described in their social context, which indicates the multiplicity of factors, political, social as well as technological, which affect the development of these systems.
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 155 mm
Dicke: 8 mm
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978-1-86020-514-9 (9781860205149)
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1.Introduction; 2. The telephone; 3. Radio; 4. Television; 5. Digital sounds; 6. Audio-visual distribution systems; 7. Data recording and storage; 8. Multimedia and virtual reality; 9. Data communications and the Internet; 10. The Internet and the information society
