NATS 1505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Claude S. Fischer, Invention Of The Telephone, Public Switched Telephone Network
6 Feb 2018
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Nats 1505 lecture 2: telephone sociability: from the advent of landlines to wireless. Gwathmey (1994) cite one advertisement which stated, telephones are rented only to persons of good breeding and refinement . Idea of voice visiting means shift to focus on conversational usage well under way: by1950: 62% of us households had telephone service, 1960: 78%, and 1970: 90% Emergency communications as the main reason they bought the device: this safety feature of cell phone usage increased again after 9/11 although today it is convenience which is the primary reason for cell phone purchases. In finland, the word for cell phone can be translated as an extension of the hand, in. China it is called a sho ji meaning hand machine : srivastava (2005): research has shown more people are emotionally tied to their cell phones than any other technology.
