Patrice Flichy is head of the communications research group at the French Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications
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Introduction PART ONE: FROM STATE-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION TO MARKET-CONTROLLED COMMUNICATION (1790-1870) Introduction State-Controlled Communication The Semaphore Telegraph Networks and Electricity Market-Controlled Communication The Electric Telegraph PART TWO: FAMILY COMMUNICATION (1870-1930) Introduction Collection and Souvenir Photography and the Gramophone From Trading in Goods to Trading in Souls The Telephone The Wireless Age Radio Broadcasting PART THREE: GLOBAL COMMUNICATION (1930-1990) Introduction Telephone Engineers' Technical Options The Triumph of Electronics Television and Computers Private Communication Final Reflections
`Focusing on the relationship between technological and social change, this study offers a comprehensive social history of communication technologies from 1790 to the present' - International Review of Social History `A scholarly, analytical assessment which makes substantial contributions to our theoretical understanding of new communication technologies.... The editors of the Media, Culture & Society series of SAGE have done us a great service by arranging for the translation and re-publication of the volume.... The "shelf life" and scholarly value of Dynamics will, without doubt, far surpass that of more fashionable publications' - Communicatiewetenschap