Reflections on Oral History: Four Cities on the Social History of Telephone Technology in Turkey

Reflections on Oral History: Four Cities on the Social History of Telephone Technology in Turkey

Reflections on Oral History: Four Cities on the Social History of Telephone Technology in Turkey
Burçe Çelik, Derya Gurses Tarbuck Comment Throughout the history of the Turkish Republic, the telephone has collectively been perceived as a technology of modernity, progress, wealth and cultural capital. Yet due to a deteriorated infrastructure, which has hindered penetration of the telephone to the entire country, only a small segment of society was able to install a telephone in their private dwellings as well as in their place of business. This…