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Tom Swift’s Three Inventions of Television: Media History and the Technological Imaginary

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dc.creatorGalili, Doron
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-13T11:47:33Z
dc.date.available2020-08-13T11:47:33Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-09
dc.description.abstractThe article discusses three fictional narratives of inventions of televisual devices, which appeared in a popular American boys’ books series about a young inventor-adventurer in 1914, 1928 and 1933. It considers these narratives as representations of the ‘technological imaginary’ of television – that is, the ideas about the possibilities of the technology that were entertained before its material realization and informed its eventual formation. A comparison between the three different manners in which the novels depict the fictional inventions demonstrates how the early imaginaries of television were conceived and articulated in response to the continuously changing intermedial context of the early twentieth century.en
dc.identifier.doi10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc081
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/14119
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/15084
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherNetherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
dc.publisher.placeHilversum
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2213-0969
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
dc.subjectFernsehende
dc.subjectTom Swiften
dc.subjectTelevisionen
dc.subjectmedia archaeologyen
dc.subjecttechnological imaginaryen
dc.subjectintermedialityen
dc.subject.ddcddc:070
dc.subject.ddcddc:791
dc.titleTom Swift’s Three Inventions of Television: Media History and the Technological Imaginaryen
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local.coverpage2021-05-29T06:07:51
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2015.jethc081
local.source.epage67
local.source.issue7
local.source.spage54
local.source.volume4

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