ABSTRACT

Along with the telephone and the car, the typewriter and other more “mundane” or otherwise unheralded background media technologies, air conditioning (AC) helped to develop modern American newspaper buildings and their newsrooms into the institutions they are today. AC was an invisible tool that was nonetheless felt—literally—when it was there and noted when it was not, as the century wore on and journalism developed into a more white-collar occupation. This article explores AC as a “blacked-boxed” technology using spatial theory, actor-network theory and a material sensibility to make manifest, in specific ways, the physical world of the air-conditioned newsroom.

摘要

连同电话、汽车、打字机和其他更“平凡”或鲜为人知的背景媒体技术，空调 (AC) 帮助现代美国报社及其新闻编辑室发展成为今天的机构。交流电是一种无形的工具，但随着世纪的流逝，新闻业发展成为一种更白领的职业，当它存在时，它会被感觉到，当它不存在时，它会被注意到。本文将 AC 探索为一种“黑盒”技术，使用空间理论、演员网络理论和物质敏感性，以特定方式显化空调新闻编辑室的物理世界。