[Air-l] development of social codes around a technology

Karen Riggs riggsk at ohio.edu
Thu Jan 27 14:01:48 PST 2005


Amanda,

Carolyn Marvin is the author of When Old Technologies were New.

Karen E. Riggs
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On Jan 27, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Ulla Bunz wrote:

> Amanda,
> There's a book called "When old technologies were new" but I can't 
> remember
> the author right now.
>
> Also, I know that "hello" used to be considered vulgar and rude to use 
> on
> the phone because it's originally a duck hunting shout, at least 
> according
> to Naomi Baron.
> Baron, N. (2002). Who sets email style? Prescriptivism, coping 
> strategies,
> and democratization of access. Information Society, 18(5), 403-413.
>
> Hope this helps a little.
>
> Ulla
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Ulla Bunz
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Communication
> Rutgers University
> 4 Huntington Street
> New Brunswick, NJ 08901
> Email: bunz at scils.rutgers.edu
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Amanda
> Lenhart
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:14 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] development of social codes around a technology
>
> Hello AoIR list,
>
> I'm at work on a MA thesis, and I'm searching for some literature on 
> the
> development of social codes around new technologies, specifically
> technologies of communication. Particularly I'm looking for some
> historic context--how did/do things like "phone manners" evolve? How do
> we learn what's "rude" or "polite"? How did we decide that all caps in
> email means "yelling"? How localized is the development of these kinds
> of rules or codes? And are these codes constantly in flux or do they
> ever stabilize?
>
> Any resources or places to look would be most helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amanda Lenhart
> MA Candidate
> Communications, Culture and Technology
> Georgetown University
> &
> Pew Internet & American Life Project
>
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