models

This page is under construction. In the interim some models for business, media and government conceptualisation of the net are here -

• the telegraph - the shape and impact of the telegraph
• telephony - and its heir the telephone
• the press - books, journals and newspapers
• prints - woodcuts, etchings, lithographs and mechanical reproduction of images before the photograph
• photos - instanteity and accuracy?
• film - the moving image
• sound recording
• radio - the first broadcast revolution
• television - and its tamer heir?
• power - electricity networks as a metaphor for the web
• rail - a world made by railways?
• highways - and by the bicycle and automobile?
• seas - communications revolutions on the waves
• aviation - activity in the air as a model for cyberspace
• outer space - the 'last frontier' and other paradigms
• impacts and indicators - studies of the economic and cultural impacts, along with a selection of measures
• bodies - communication bodies
• metaphors - metaphors for the net

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