Daniel Headrick
In Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race, Hugh Slotten traces the origin of satellite communications in the 1960s. Applying the social construction of technology method, he analyzes the founding of Intelsat by the Kennedy administration as a means of boosting US influence around the world during the Cold War.
Lisa Parks
Engaging with a trove of archival records, Slotten's crucial history of early satellite communications spotlights the international dimensions of infrastructure projects. As the book tackles key issues of technical standards, corporate strategy, state power, and geopolitics, it enriches understandings of the massive technological system operating on and beyond Earth.
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This book, which traces how the US created a satellite communications system that the Kennedy administration aimed to make global, will be of interest to historians of communications and American foreign policy. It makes a fine addition to JHU's stable on technology and standards.—Heidi J. S. Tworek, University of British Columbia, author of News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications, 1900–1945
Both Slotten's narrative and research are distinct and outstanding. This is a superb work.—James Schwoch, Northwestern University, author of Wired Into Nature: The Telegraph and the North American Frontier
In Beyond Sputnik and the Space Race, Hugh Slotten traces the origin of satellite communications in the 1960s. Applying the social construction of technology method, he analyzes the founding of Intelsat by the Kennedy administration as a means of boosting US influence around the world during the Cold War.—Daniel Headrick, author of The Invisible Weapon: Telecommunications and International Politics, 1851–1945
Engaging with a trove of archival records, Slotten's crucial history of early satellite communications spotlights the international dimensions of infrastructure projects. As the book tackles key issues of technical standards, corporate strategy, state power, and geopolitics, it enriches understandings of the massive technological system operating on and beyond Earth.—Lisa Parks, University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Rethinking Media Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror
James Schwoch
Both Slotten's narrative and research are distinct and outstanding. This is a superb work.
Heidi J. S. Tworek
This book, which traces how the US created a satellite communications system that the Kennedy administration aimed to make global, will be of interest to historians of communications and American foreign policy. It makes a fine addition to JHU's stable on technology and standards.