Article ID: CBB656803681

Landline Natives: Telephone Practices since the 1950s as Innovation (July 2020)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Oldenziel, Ruth
Penner, Barbara
Fenster, Julie M.
Patton, Elizabeth
Hochfelder, David P.
Zachmann, Karin
Concepts
Household technology
Technology
Users of technology
Communication technology
Kitchens
Technology and culture
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
16th century
15th century
Places
United States
Americas
Europe
Poland
Great Britain
Institutions
Pallned Parenthood Federation of America
Cornell University
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