Dissertation Information for Greg DowneyNAME:
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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected Title: "Uniformed boys for every occasion": Telegraph messenger labor in the first communications internetwork, 1850--1950
Abstract: "This dissertation is an analysis of the role of ""information labor"" in shaping both urban space and technological systems. I explore the history and geography of the US telegraph network from 1850 to 1950 through a study of that industry's most contingent workers, the telegraph messenger boys. |
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Students under Greg Downey
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COMMITTEESHIPS:
- Yunkeum Kim - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2003)
- Sook Lim - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2004)
- Patricia Lawton - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2006)
- Terrance S. Newell - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2006)
- Lynne C. Chase - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2007)
- Nathan R Johnson - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2011)
- Xiaohua Zhu - University of Wisconsin, Madison (2011)