电视的社会母体:美国特色

• 作 者: 珍·艾伦 肖模
• 出 处: 世界电影
• 发表日期: 1990年04期
• 关键词: 尼普科夫 技术决定论 第二次世界大战 四十年代 美国特色 母体 美国家庭 一句话 技术发展 行业杂志

关于二十世纪的技术发展,人们常说这样一句话:科学发明的速度远远超过了社会承受和适应的能力。这里所表明的不仅是“文化滞后”的概念,而且是一种技术决定论,即社会须适应于从人类想像这样一种自治领域里产生出来的种种发明。美国电视的发展却是对这一见解的挑战。以尼普科夫1884年发明扫描盘机械装置到第二次世界大战末电视进入美国家庭这段时期而言,电视在二十年代中期至四十年代的大量发行的期刊里一直受到热切的期待,甚至还有过多次早“产”的现象。

With regard to the technological development in the twentieth century, it is often said that the speed of scientific invention goes far beyond the capacity of society to bear and adapt. What is shown here is not only the notion of “cultural lag” but also a technical determinism that society has to adapt to the various inventions that emerge from the field of self-government that humankind imagines. The development of American television is a challenge to this view. In the period when Nipkow invented the scanning disk mechanism in 1884 and entered the American home at the end of World War II, television was eagerly expected in a large number of published journals from the mid-1920s to the forties There have even been many “births” earlier.