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Technology, Affordances and Occupational Identity Amongst Older Telecommunications Engineers
This article explores the relationship between technology and occupational identity based on working-life biographical interviews with older telecommunications engineers. In the construction of their own working-life biographical narratives, participants attached great importance to the technology with which they worked. The article contends that workers’ relationship with technology can be more nuanced than either the sociology of technology literature or the sociology of work literature accommodates. Adopting the concept of affordances, it is argued that the physical nature of earlier electromechanical technology afforded engineers the opportunity to ‘fix’ things through the skilled application of tools and act as autonomous custodians of ‘living’ machines: factors that were inherent to their occupational identity. However, the change to digital technology denied the affordances to apply hands-on skill and undermined key elements of the engineering occupational identity. Rather than simply reflecting the nostalgic romanticizing of the past, the biographies captured deterioration in the material realities of work.
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Tim Berners-Lee
\"A biography of Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, from his birth in London, England, to his physics studies at Queens College, Oxford, and his work as a software engineer at CERN in Geneva. He created the Web, specifications for URLs, HTTP, and HTML, and the first web browser. He also founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT in 1994 to develop international Web standards.\"--Provided by publisher.
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Kuen Charles Kao (1933–2018)
Graduating in electrical engineering in 1957, he joined Standard Telephones and Cables, part of the conglomerate International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT). Growing demand for information transfer meant moving to higher, microwave frequencies (gigahertz), with major research programmes set up around the world to find a way to guide signals from source to destination. Much of the work was done at STL and at the Post Office research labs in Britain, in fierce competition with Bell Labs and the US telecommunications firm AT&T. In 1977, the UK Post Office was the first to install optical fibres in its telecommunications network.
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YouTubeھ : how Steve Chen changed the way we watch videos
A few years ago, YouTube was only an idea a few friends shared. One of those friends was Steve Chen. Learn about the beginning of one of the most important websites ever created. Discover the story of how Steve helped to start the biggest video site on the Internet.
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Empire of the Air
Empire of the Air tells the story of three American visionaries—Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff—whose imagination and dreams turned a hobbyist's toy into radio, launching the modern communications age. Tom Lewis weaves the story of these men and their achievements into a richly detailed and moving narrative that spans the first half of the twentieth century, a time when the American romance with science and technology was at its peak. Empire of the Air is a tale of pioneers on the frontier of a new technology, of American entrepreneurial spirit, and of the tragic collision between inventor and corporation.
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Google it : a history of Google
An investigative reporter reveals the true story of how Google evolved from a college project made out of knockoff LEGO pieces to one of the most influential companies in the world.
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Honeysuckle Creek
Honeysuckle Creek reveals the pivotal role that the tracking station at Honeysuckle Creek, near Canberra, played in the first moon landing. Andrew Tink gives a gripping account of the role of its director Tom Reid and his colleagues in transmitting some of the most-watched images in human history as Neil Armstrong took his first step.
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Googleھ : how Larry Page & Sergey Brin changed the way we search the web
You may use Google websites every day, but do you know the story of the men behind Google: Larry Page and Sergey Brin? Find out how Larry and Sergey started the company and how they got their first inspiration. Learn how Google grew to become the amazing success we all know today.
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Marconi : the man who networked the world
Mark Raboy's biography traces the origins and emergence of our present networked system of global communication through the stunning life and career of Guglielmo Marconi.
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