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Downey, Technology and Communication in American History
Downey views historiography of the Information Age as interdisciplinary. In his brief texts he analyzes how technological forces and social forces interact and link with another, which produces a history that rejects, what is considered, a “technologically determinist” view. Instead of the history of technology being seperate periods that evolved from one another, there exists a base fundamental of communication upon which technological advancements are layered on. “The functions of “… exchnaging informaion, enabling action at a distance, and participating in a shared symbolic culture” remain the same, while the technologies like print, networked communication, mass communication and computer-mediated communication don’t necessarily replace one another, but rather “continue to co-exist, even as the communication functions that they serve in society shift, split and merge.”