The Resource Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing, Rachel Plotnick
Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing, Rachel Plotnick
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- Summary
- Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when "technologies of the hand" proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing-as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)-Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing
- Title
- Power button
- Title remainder
- a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing
- Statement of responsibility
- Rachel Plotnick
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Push a button and turn on the television; tap a button and get a ride; click a button and "like" something. The touch of a finger can set an appliance, a car, or a system in motion, even if the user doesn't understand the underlying mechanisms or algorithms. How did buttons become so ubiquitous? Why do people love them, loathe them, and fear them? In Power Button, Rachel Plotnick traces the origins of today's push-button society by examining how buttons have been made, distributed, used, rejected, and refashioned throughout history. Focusing on the period between 1880 and 1925, when "technologies of the hand" proliferated (including typewriters, telegraphs, and fingerprinting), Plotnick describes the ways that button pushing became a means for digital command, which promised effortless, discreet, and fool-proof control. Emphasizing the doubly digital nature of button pushing-as an act of the finger and a binary activity (on/off, up/down)-Plotnick suggests that the tenets of precomputational digital command anticipate contemporary ideas of computer users
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- Plotnick, Rachel
- Dewey number
- 621.3815/37
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Remote control
- Electric switchgear
- Social psychology
- Industrial revolution
- Object (Philosophy)
- Industrial revolution
- Object (Philosophy)
- Social psychology
- Label
- Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing, Rachel Plotnick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1013528597
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxvi, 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262038232
- Lccn
- 2017055846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013528597
- Label
- Power button : a history of pleasure, panic, and the politics of pushing, Rachel Plotnick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1013528597
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xxvi, 394 pages
- Isbn
- 9780262038232
- Lccn
- 2017055846
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1013528597
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