Telephone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Green (0000-0001-5413-0642, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeost013 |
| OpenAlex | W4234313976 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
The telephone was developed in 1876, and alongside communication technologies such as the telegraph and steam‐based transportation systems, it was one of the key technologies that contributed to the transformation of late nineteenth and early twentieth‐century western societies. The ability to transmit sound across long distances in real time was initially treated with either wonder or suspicion, but by the end of the twentieth century the telephone had become a taken‐for‐granted feature of everyday life in many parts of the western world. It is because of this ubiquity that sociologists have tended to neglect the telephone as a fundamentally social technology. More recently, however, sociologists have come to pay more attention to the extent of its significance in social communication, interpersonal interaction, social organization, and the regulation of social life
Everyday life · Interpersonal communication · Media studies · Neglect · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Wonder · History · Law · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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