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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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Communication Artefacts? : Context and Content in the History of the Electric Telegraph
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Ingår i: Paper presented at Teknik- och vetenskapshistoriska dagarna, Tekniska museet Stockholm, 8-10 april 2008..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The use of any communication technology requires a shared set of meanings regarding the technology itself. This paper discusses how the conflict between idealised notions of the electric telegraph and actual experiences of the technology as an artifact and material prescence, affected the interpretation of telegraphic dispatches in Sweden during the period 1850–1870. Drawing on both comments on the new technology published in regional newspapers and archival sources from the Swedish telegraph agency Telegrafverket, the paper reconstructs the main traits of this tension. Although the electric telegraph was a positively charged symbol for the possibility of bridging space in a short time, its uses and materiality on the local level created conflicts between different groups of local citizens, potential users and personnel at the regional telegraph offices. The existence of such conflicts highlights the complexity of the processes whereby, using the termonology of SCOT [The Social Construction of Technology] the perceived meaning of a new technology after an initial period of competing interpretations, reaches "closure".
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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En helig allmännelig opinion : Föreställningar om offentlighet och legitimitet i svensk riksdagsdebatt 1848 – 1919
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis analyses how 'public opinion' was conceptualised by Members of the Swedish Parliament (MPs) between 1848 and 1919. The source material consists of the printed minutes from parliamentary debates where issues such as religious freedom, constitutional reform and reform of the Press were discussed. What happened to the ideal of an enlightened public opinion when the development of a large-scale industrial economy changed the nature of the Press? Two main aspects of public opinion are analysed. Firstly, the question of what MPs considered the most reliable source of public opinion is examined. The legitimacy of manifestations claiming to represent public opinion, such as written petitions, the Press, Parliament itself, quantitative estimations and also the silent opinion was discussed. In the 1910s the voices of women were also included by some MPs when assessing public opinion. The second main aspect is how MPs envisioned the relationship between the reliability of public opinion and the conditions for public discourse. Here an important distinction was made between public opinion formed in a free and unhindered debate and that brought about by persuasion. The study shows that public opinion was a contested concept in the Swedish Parliament. In the 1850s, Conservatives gave the religiously conservative nature of public opinion as a reason to postpone the reform of religious laws. In debating constitutional reform, on the other hand, it was the Liberals who argued that decisions should follow public opinion. In the 1910s, the Left was divided over the relationship between public opinion and the State, with some arguing that the State should intervene in the public debate to offset the negative influence of market mechanisms. Others felt that public opinion rather than legislation should set the limits of the public discourse, especially in the case of religion, but also concerning the Press.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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En helig allmännelig opinion : Föreställningar om offentlighet och legitimitet i svensk riksdagsdebatt 1848-1919
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis analyses how 'public opinion' was conceptualised by Members of the Swedish Parliament (MPs) between 1848 and 1919. The source material consists of the printed minutes from parliamentary debates where issues such as religious freedom, constitutional reform and reform of the Press were discussed. What happened to the ideal of an enlightened public opinion when the development of a large-scale industrial economy changed the nature of the Press? Two main aspects of public opinion are analysed. Firstly, the question of what MPs considered the most reliable source of public opinion is examined. The legitimacy of manifestations claiming to represent public opinion, such as written petitions, the Press, Parliament itself, quantitative estimations and also the silent opinion was discussed. In the 1910s the voices of women were also included by some MPs when assessing public opinion.The second main aspect is how MPs envisioned the relationship between the reliability of public opinion and the conditions for public discourse. Here an important distinction was made between public opinion formed in a free and unhindered debate and that brought about by persuasion.The study shows that public opinion was a contested concept in the Swedish Parliament. In the 1850s, Conservatives gave the religiously conservative nature of public opinion as a reason to postpone the reform of religious laws. In debating constitutional reform, on the other hand, it was the Liberals who argued that decisions should follow public opinion. In the 1910s, the Left was divided over the relationship between public opinion and the State, with some arguing that the State should intervene in the public debate to offset the negative influence of market mechanisms. Others felt that public opinion rather than legislation should set the limits of the public discourse, especially in the case of religion, but also concerning the Press.
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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Karl Starbäck
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Ingår i: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon. - Stockholm.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Harvard, Jonas, 1971-
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News heading north - The telegraph and the temporal representation of Europe in the newspapers of northern Scandinavia 1850–1870 : Paper presented at Tensions of Europe, Rotterdam 7–10 June 2007, Media and the making of Europe
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The electric telegraph, it is often said, by separating communication from physical transport, “annihilated” time and space. How did it affect the way in which “Europe” was temporally represented at the fringes of the continent? In this paper I compare how two Swedish provincial newspapers, separated by some 1500 kilometres, used the telegraph and how it affected the temporal aspect of their news. One was published in the southern town Helsingborg, near the Danish border, and the other up in the sparsely populated northern town Piteå. The results indicate that the newspaper physically closest to the continent benefited the most from the new technology. Rather than bringing the northern paper closer to Europe in time, the telegraph through the growing differences made it seem more backward. Situating the papers’ usage of the telegraph in the differing regional contexts of technology and economy has provided possible explanations to this pattern.
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