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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc,
2015.
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| Colección: | Object lessons.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. While we all use remote controls, we understand little about their history or their impact on our daily lives. Caetlin Benson-Allot looks back on the remote control's material and cultural history to explain how such an innocuous media accessory has changed the way we occupy our houses, interact with our families, and experience the world. From the first wired radio remotes of the 1920s to infrared universal remotes, from the homemade TV controllers to the Apple Remote, remote con. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 157 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-146) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781628923452 1628923458 9781628923445 162892344X |