03018namaa2200565uu 4500 oapen93189 oapen 20251217011848.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240918s2024a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 9781003424536 9781032543680 9781032543697 10.4324/9781003424536 doi oapen oapen eng dc N thema NH thema NHB thema NHT thema NHTB thema Balbi, Gabriele aut Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of communication over long time or in Longue Durée Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of communication maintenance. Among these are the struggles to keep communication infrastructures functioning, the hidden work of maintenance done by both experts and non-experts such as everyday users, the political significance of maintaining communications (or not maintaining them), and the different habits and significance of maintenance in different times and world regions. The forms of communication covered include broadcasting, telecommunications such as the telegraph and telephone, digital and popular media as computers and mobile phones, mostly forgotten media like pneumatic tubes, transportation infrastructures, maps as used as tools to politically control land, the clock as a medium and a material artifact, and many more. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication and media studies, the history of science and technology, general history, geography, maintenance studies, and other related disciplines. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng General and world history thema History and Archaeology thema History: specific events and topics thema History thema Social and cultural history thema broadcasting communication infrastructure media studies repair telecommunications Balbi, Gabriele edt Leggero, Roberto edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/93189 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 36951 36951