Nautical Media : An Historical Ethnography of Ships and Control Rooms.

Over the last 70 years, media have become increasingly central to nautical mobility. Asher Boersma describes how, in the 1960s and 1970s, the focus of the Western European infrastructuring state shifted from dramatic physical intervention to control rooms, which both benefited from and drove the med...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Boersma, Asher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1
  • Devil's Island
  • Chapter 2
  • The Mediatisation of Work
  • Chapter 3
  • Control room Prestige and Design intertwined
  • Chapter 4
  • Tweeting operators
  • Chapter 5
  • Media of Separation
  • Conclusion
  • Literature
  • List of Figures