Coding and Representation from the Nineteenth Century to the Present: Scrambled Messages

Anne Chapman (Editor), Natalie Hume (Editor)

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Abstract

An exploration of trends and cultures connected to electrical telegraphy and recent digital communications, this collection emerges from the research project Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1866–1900, which investigated cultural phenomena relating to the 1866 transatlantic telegraph. It interrogates the ways in which society, politics, literature and art are imbricated with changing communications technologies, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Contributors consider control, imperialism and capital, as well as utopianism and hope, grappling with the ways in which human connections (and their messages) continue to be shaped by communications infrastructures.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages226
ISBN (Electronic)9781003169154
ISBN (Print)9780367769673
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2021

Publication series

NameRoutledge Studies in Cultural History

Keywords

  • coding
  • telegraphy
  • digital communications
  • communication

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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