![Barely known yet compelling cultural history of technology. [Rev. Piotr Sitarski, Maria B. Garda, Krzysztof Jajko, „Nowe media w PRL”, Łódź 2020] Cover Image](/api/image/getissuecoverimage?id=picture_2022_71769.jpg)
Ledwie znana, a wciągająca kulturowa historia techniki. [Rec. Piotr Sitarski, Maria B. Garda, Krzysztof Jajko, „Nowe media w PRL”]
Barely known yet compelling cultural history of technology. [Rev. Piotr Sitarski, Maria B. Garda, Krzysztof Jajko, „Nowe media w PRL”, Łódź 2020]
Author(s): Mariusz MazurSubject(s): History, Cultural history, Media studies, Book-Review
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: history of technology; new media; VCR; microcomputer; satellite television
Summary/Abstract: In their book entitled Nowe media w PRL (New Media in the People’s Republic of Poland), the authors discuss and comment on the origins of three technologies: VCRs, microcomputers, and satellite television, and the factors influencing their use and development in the 1980s socialist Poland’s system. In their analysis, they rely on extensive media theory and draw on social history.
Journal: Wieki Stare i Nowe
- Issue Year: 22/2022
- Issue No: 17
- Page Range: 1-7
- Page Count: 7
- Language: Polish
