abstract:

The telephone has played a key role in shaping modern life. While most scholars focus on the early use of landline telephones, this article follows the subsequent social history of landline telephones in the late twentieth century as an equally significant phase of innovation, when telephone practices changed radically as a result of transformations in national and household infrastructures. In this article, we identify a new generation of “landline natives” emerging around 1968; for them, the telephone was a natural form of communication and part of their home environments. Our case study of how telephone use became taken for granted serves as a prehistory for scholars studying cellphone and smartphone practices as well as media scholars seeking to understand audience participation in television and radio.

摘要：

电话在塑造现代生活中发挥了关键作用。尽管大多数学者关注固定电话的早期使用，但本文遵循了二十世纪后期的固定电话的社会历史，这是一个同等重要的创新阶段，当时由于国家和家庭基础设施的变革，电话使用方式发生了根本性的变化。在本文中，我们确定了1968年左右出现的新一代“陆上本地人”。对于他们来说，电话是他们自然的通信方式，也是他们家庭环境的一部分。我们关于如何理所当然地使用电话的案例研究为研究手机和智能手机实践的学者以及寻求了解受众参与电视和广播的媒体学者提供了史前史。