History of Technology Volume 35
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This book provides a recalibration of the history of computing that foregrounds globally entangled perspectives on the socio-digital interdependencies of geographical and ideological spheres since the 1950s. While smartphones, social media, and AI chatbots profoundly shape our 21st-century world, History of Technology Volume 35 reveals how computing technologies have evolved over the decades into a global force with far-reaching social, economic, and political consequences.
This volume places history at the heart of debates about digital transformations and global divides. Moving beyond scholarship centered on Europe and the United States, the book explores the entanglement of the digital and the social from globally interconnected perspectives. The chapters examine computing through four interrelated lenses:
· digital and analog divides in a globalized world
· global ambitions and local resistances
· corporate entanglements and international cooperation
· nation-building and digital sovereignty
Case studies range from computer advertising in authoritarian Brazil and IBM training centers in Senegal to the struggles of the computer industry in the Soviet Bloc, the debates on the World Wide Web in Switzerland, the take-off of IT offshoring in India, and a new semiconductor diplomacy in twenty-first-century Taiwan. Together, these essays offer a global history of computing from the 1950s to the 2000s, illuminating how technological change and social transformation have been inextricably intertwined.
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Table of Contents
1. Decentering the History of Computing: An Introduction Michael Homberg (Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam, Germany) and Debora Gerstenberger (University of Cologne, Germany)
2. Beyond Script: Aticipations and unexpected uses of computers since 1945 Dick van Lente (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
3. Natural Resource Processing: History of Computing in the Anthropocene in a Transnational Perspective Martin Schmitt (Paderborn University, Germany)
Part II - Global Aspirations and Competitions on the Ground
4. When Europe Missed the 'Web Train': The 1993 Alexandria Proposal and the Decline of Europe's Role in Shaping the Web's Public Future Martin Fomasi, Deborah Barcella, Eleonora Benecchi and Gabriele Balbi (all University of Lugano, Switzerland)
5. Transforming the World by Computer-Assisted Instruction: UNESCO and Its Vision of Global Media Ecologies in Education (ca. 1950s–1970s) Karin Priem (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
6. Transnational Tech Bros: Mythologizing Masculinity and Resistant Care Work in the Global Tech Economy Anita Chan, Jorge Rojas and Jiwon Oh (all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Part III - Corporations and Co-operations
7. Between Socialist Cooperation and Economic Rivalry: The Computer Industry in the Soviet Bloc Felix Herrmann (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
8. Different paths from body shopping to offshoring in India and Germany: Transnational perspectives on the IT services industry Timo Leimbach (Aarhus University, Denmark)
9. Computing and Dependency in Postcolonial India: IBM, CDC, and the Politics of Technology Transfer Dwai Banerjee (MIT, USA)
Part IV - Nation Building and Digital Independence
10. Authoritarian Modernization and Technological Autonomy: Information Technology advertising during the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil (1970's) Marcelo Vianna (Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
11. A Computer Speaking Wolof: The transnational Computers in Education project in Dakar and the effort to Senegalize computing in the 1980s Anna Osterlow (Sciences Po, France)
12. Un-Stacking Histories of Computing, Re-Assembling Former Futures of Start-up India Sandeep Mertia (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA)
13. Tech Giants and Geopolitics in 21st Century Taiwan: Taiwanese Semiconductor Industry Pioneer Robert H. C. Tsao's Battles Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota Twin Cities, USA)
Index
Product details
| Published | 13 May 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 336 |
| ISBN | 9781350659575 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 bw illus |
| Series | History of Technology |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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