{"product_id":"9781138699984","title":"Misunderstanding Media (Routledge Library Editions: Cultural Studies)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1980s saw constant reports of an information revolution. This book, first published in 1986, challenges this view. It argues that the information revolution is an illusion, a rhetorical gambit, an expression of profound historical ignorance, and a movement dedicated to purveying misunderstanding and disseminating disinformation. In this historically based attack on the information revolution, Professor Winston takes a had look at the four central information technologies – telephones, television, computers and satellites. He describes how these technologies were created and diffused, showing that instead of revolution we just have ‘business as usual’. He formulates a ‘law’ of the suppression of radical potential – a law which states that new telecommunication technologies are introduced into society only insofar as their disruptive potential is contained. Despite the so-called information revolution, the major institutions of society remain unchanged, and most of us remain in total ignorance of the history of technology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49139081281771,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":463.38,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781138699984-1.jpg?v=1785768964","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781138699984","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}