Progress and its complications: Kuangch'i Program Service and the introduction of television technology to Taiwan

"This study examines the role of Kuangch'i Program Service in the introduction of television into Taiwan using a model for the contextual history of technology developed by John Staudenmaier. Central to the dissertation is the thesis that technologies are not ""autonomous,"" but rather arise as a result of specific historical and cultural needs and values. In the West, the most fundamental of these are consumption-orientation, efficiency, and rationality. The evolution of these key values in Western culture is traced. These values are embedded in the very design of technology developed in the West and bias both the use of the technology and its potential for adoption by other cultures, forming an implicit logic of use with which an adopting culture must cope in order for the technology to ""fit"" the adopting culture."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Braden, Michael L.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Rowland, Willard D., Jr.

• History, Asia, Australia and Oceania
• Mass Communications

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Braden, Michael L.

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9624295
(UMI)AAI9624295

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/22926