Television in science and industry
Title | Television in science and industry PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Kosma Zworykin |
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Pages | 300 |
Release | 1958 |
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Science on the Air
Title | Science on the Air PDF eBook |
Author | Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 325 |
Release | 2009-08-01 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0226466957 |
Mr. Wizard’s World. Bill Nye the Science Guy. NPR’s Science Friday. These popular television and radio programs broadcast science into the homes of millions of viewers and listeners. But these modern series owe much of their success to the pioneering efforts of early-twentieth-century science shows like Adventures in Science and “Our Friend the Atom.” Science on the Air is the fascinating history of the evolution of popular science in the first decades of the broadcasting era. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette transports readers to the early days of radio, when the new medium allowed innovative and optimistic scientists the opportunity to broadcast serious and dignified presentations over the airwaves. But the exponential growth of listenership in the 1920s, from thousands to millions, and the networks’ recognition that each listener represented a potential consumer, turned science on the radio into an opportunity to entertain, not just educate. Science on the Air chronicles the efforts of science popularizers, from 1923 until the mid-1950s, as they negotiated topic, content, and tone in order to gain precious time on the air. Offering a new perspective on the collision between science’s idealistic and elitist view of public communication and the unbending economics of broadcasting, LaFollette rewrites the history of the public reception of science in the twentieth century and the role that scientists and their institutions have played in both encouraging and inhibiting popularization. By looking at the broadcasting of the past, Science on the Air raises issues of concern to all those who seek to cultivate a scientifically literate society today.
Television in Sciences and Industry
Title | Television in Sciences and Industry PDF eBook |
Author | Vladimir Koźmič Zvorykin |
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Pages | 300 |
Release | 1958 |
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Radioisotopes in Science and Industry
Title | Radioisotopes in Science and Industry PDF eBook |
Author | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | Radioisotopes |
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The Story of Television
Title | The Story of Television PDF eBook |
Author | Radio Corporation of America |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 1951 |
Genre | Television |
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Television in Science and Industry. ([By] V.K. Zworykin, E.G. Ramberg, L.E. Flory.).
Title | Television in Science and Industry. ([By] V.K. Zworykin, E.G. Ramberg, L.E. Flory.). PDF eBook |
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Release | 1958 |
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Television at Work
Title | Television at Work PDF eBook |
Author | Kit Hughes |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2020-01-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0190855789 |
"This book explores how work, television, and waged labor come to have meaning in our everyday lives. However, it is not an analysis of workplace sitcoms or quality dramas. Instead, it explores the forgotten history of how American private sector workplaces used television in the twentieth century. In traces how, at the hands of employers, television physically and psychically managed workers and attempted to make work meaningful under the sign of capitalism. It also shows how the so-called domestic medium helped businesses shape labor relations and information architectures foundational to the twinned rise of the technologically mediated corporation and a globalizing information economy. Among other things, business and industry built extensive private television networks to distribute live and taped programming, leased satellite time for global 'meetings' and program distribution, created complex CCTV data search and retrieval systems, encouraged the use of videotape for worker self-evaluation, used video cassettes for training distributed workforces, and wired cantinas for employee entertainment. Television at work describes the myriad ways the medium served business' attempts to shape employees' relationships to their labor and the workplace in order to secure industrial efficiency, support corporate expansion, and inculcate preferred ideological orientations. narrowcasting, immediacy, time-shifting, flow, Post-Fordism, labor, audience labor, video, satellite, CCTV"--