[Commlist] New Edited Book “Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée”

 New Edited Book “Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée” (edited by 
Gabriele Balbi and Roberto Leggero)*

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*Link to access the contents (3 chapters in Open Access)*

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003424536/communication-maintenance-longue-dur%C3%A9e-gabriele-balbi-roberto-leggero 


*Description*

This interdisciplinary volume focuses on the politics, economics, 
technologies, uses, and cultures of maintenance of different forms of 
communication over long time or in Longue Durée.

Throughout the chapters, contributors from a wide range of fields 
explore transversal and trans-temporal issues of communication 
maintenance. Among these are the struggles to keep communication 
infrastructures functioning, the hidden work of maintenance done by both 
experts and non-experts such as everyday users, the political 
significance of maintaining communications (or not maintaining them), 
and the different habits and significance of maintenance in different 
times and world regions. The forms of communication covered include 
broadcasting, telecommunications such as the telegraph and telephone, 
digital and popular media as computers and mobile phones, mostly 
forgotten media like pneumatic tubes, transportation infrastructures, 
maps as used as tools to politically control land, the clock as a medium 
and a material artifact, and many more.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of communication 
and media studies, the history of science and technology, general 
history, geography, maintenance studies, and other related disciplines.

The Introduction, Chapter 5 and 8 of this book are freely available as a 
downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a 
Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 
(CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

*Table of content*

Communication Studies /Long for/ Maintenance Cultures: A Theoretical 
Introduction to the Book
/Gabriele Balbi and Roberto Leggero/

*Part 1: Temporalities*

1. The Clock of the Long Now in /Longue Durée/: Maintaining a 
Communication “Cool Tool” Through Millennia
/Julie Momméja/

2. Endless Frontiers of Maintenance: The /Longue Durée/ of Communication 
Infrastructure in the United States
/Andrew L. Russell/

3. Sense Perception and the Maintenance of Pneumatic Mail Tubes in the 
/Longue Durée/: Feeling the Air, Preventing and Fixing Failures
/Laura Meneghello/

4. The “Technical Time” of the Luxembourgish Telephone System: 
Reflections on the Transformative Power of Maintenance
/Stefan Krebs and Rebecca Mossop/

*Part 2: Theorizing*

5. Power and Maintenance in the Alpine Middle Ages: A Long-Term View
/Roberto Leggero/

6. Maps as Maintenance. Designing and Controlling the Kingdom of 
Sardinia and the State of Milan’s Boundaries and Rivers in the 18th Century
/Blythe Alice Raviola/

7. Communicative Redundancy as a Maintenance Resource. The Dose Makes 
the Poison
/Kirill Postoutenko/

8. We Are All Maintainers: Everyday Practices of Media Maintenance in 
the Domestication of Technologies
/Corinna Peil/

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*Part 3: Infrastructuring*

9. A Low Place in High Country: Maintaining Infrastructural Clearance 
Along the Backbone of the World
/Sam P. Kellogg/

10. Large-Scale Infrastructure System in Lisbon: Politics of Repair and 
Maintenance in the European Periphery in the 20th Century
/Felipe Beuttenmüller Lopes Silva/

11. Maintenance of a Monopoly: The Digitalization of the Telephone 
Network as an Attempt to Preserve the Telecommunications Monopoly for 
the /Longue Durée/
/Matthias Röhr/

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