Author Archive for: ‘Peter B. White’

Tom Standage, The Victorian Internet : The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers. Walker Publishing Company. 1998 ISBN 0 8027 1342 4 240pp US $22.00 Uploaded 1 July 1999 We live in an age where knowledge of the past has all but disappeared from everyday thinking. The managerial ethic which assumes that an MBA is all …

William H. Dutton, Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age. Oxford University Press, 1999. ISBN 0 19 877460 5 390 pp AU$55.00 (paper) Uploaded 1 March 2000 William Dutton has written and edited an important contribution to the literature on the relationships between media and society. Dutton was the Director of the U.K. Program on Information and Communications …

Jock Given, The Death of Broadcasting: Media’s Digital Future. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 86840 449 7 AU $9.95 Uploaded 18 December 1998 Digitisation is the buzz word of the nineties. While most attention has been focussed on the Internet, the old media are being transformed. First, publishers embraced cold type and this led to …