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Paschal Preston is an author and academic at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland. Preston has written several books related to communications.

Published works

Books by Paschal Preston include:

  • Strategies of Inclusion and Gender in the Information Society: Private and Voluntary Sector Initiatives (2004)
  • Reshaping Communications: Technology, Information and Social Change (2001)
  • Democracy and Communication in the New Europe: Change & Continuities in East and West (1995)
  • The Carrier Wave: New IT and the Geography of Innovation (1988)

Notable Reviews

  1. In The Carrier Wave: New IT and the Geography of Innovation, Preston lays out the concept of the carrier wave. This idea influenced the model of sociotechnical development that was later set forth by Glen Norcliffe in Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900. Hugh G. J. Aitken reviewed The Carrier Wave in the journal Isis, writing, "Unfortunately, an ambiguity remains and is never resolved: whether the alleged long wave is generated by technological innovations (in which case it would be better called a "carried" wave) or, alternatively, creates the conditions in which technological innovations can occur." In Town Planning Review, Tom Stonier called the work "a valuable book, crammed with statistics, organised into a useful body of information."
  2. Frank Webster wrote in regards to Preston's book Reshaping Communications, that he "has produced a noteworthy book which will have considerable influence on those concerned with information and communication matters. It is extraordinarily wide ranging, encompassing just about every matter of significance in this sprawling field, while presenting a forceful, even polemical, thesis." Reviewing the same work Jan Fernback wrote that Preston "attempts to assess the impact of new communication technology by marrying economics, social science, and information science together with non-academic, industrial literatures."

References

  1. Epperson, Bruce (April 2002). "Book Review: Ride to Modernity: The Bicycle in Canada, 1869-1900". Technology and Culture. 43 (2): 425–426. doi:10.1353/tech.2002.0058. S2CID 108647463.
  2. Aitken, Hugh G. J. (1990). "Review: The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846-2003". Isis. 81 (2): 325–327. doi:10.1086/355379. JSTOR 233728.
  3. Stonier, Tom (January 1989). "Hall, Peter and Preston, Paschal, "The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation", 1846-2003 (Book Review)" (PDF). Town Planning Review. 60 (1): 106. doi:10.3828/tpr.60.1.w2562w213j65115r. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  4. Webster, Frank (2001). "Review: Reshaping Communications: Technology, Information and Social Change". Information, Communication & Society. 4 (4): 634–641.
  5. Fernback, Jan (2002). "Journalism and New Media / Reshaping Communications: Technology, Information and Social Change". Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. 57 (2). doi:10.1177/107769580205700206. S2CID 140804420. Retrieved 23 August 2014.

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