This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone's development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers' attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

This book documents and examines the history of technology used by consumers to serve oneself. The telephone's development as a self-service technology functions as the narrative spine, beginning with the advent of rotary dialing eliminating most operator services and transforming every local connection into an instance of self-service. Today, nearly a century later, consumers manipulate 0-9 keypads on a plethora of digital machines. Throughout the book Palm employs a combination of historical, political-economic and cultural analysis to describe how the telephone keypad was absorbed into business models across media, retail and financial industries, as the interface on everyday machines including the ATM, cell phone and debit card reader. He argues that the naturalization of self-service telephony shaped consumers' attitudes and expectations about digital technology.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Allgemein, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Institut fur Allgemeine Padagogik und Berufspadagogik), Veranstaltung: Menschenmacher. Padagogik und Biotechnologie., Sprache: Deutsch, Anmerkungen: Kommentar des Dozenten: "die Arbeit zeugt von einem fundamentalen Verstandnis dessen, was die sog. Schwarze Padagogik intendiert.," Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird untersucht, inwiefern die Therapie des ADHS mit dem Medikament Ritalin(r) als moderne Schwarze Padagogik verstanden werden kann. Hierbei wird in einem ersten Schritt der Begriff der Schwarzen Padagogik erlautert und versucht, seine Hauptmerkmale herausarbeiten. Anschliessend wird der Begriff ADHS kurz vorgestellt, um dann naher darauf eingehen zu konnen, welche Wirkung Ritalin(r) auf Kinder hat und unter welchen Umstanden es erhaltlich ist. Im Kapitel Interpretation wird schliesslich die Therapie des ADHS mittels Ritalin(r) und die Schwarze Padagogik verglichen, um dann in einem Fazit das Ergebnis dieses Vergleichs zu prasentieren und ggf. auf weitere offene Fragen hinzuweisen. Bei alldem beschrankt sich diese Arbeit auf den aktuellen Stand in Deutschland (Mar

The essays in this book, written by people involved either involved in the strike (graduate students, faculty, organizers) or who are nationally recognized writers on academic labor, offers lessons on what the GSOC strike says about the current role of the university in public life, and how the pressure for universities to realign themselves along the lines of private corporations has broad implications for the future of higher education.