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New media, 1740-1915 /
"Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and thei...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
©2003.
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| Series: | Media in transition.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- What's new about new media? / Geoffrey B. Pingree and Lisa Gitelman
- Zograscopes, virtual reality, and the mapping of polite society in eighteenth-century England / Erin C. Blake
- Heads of state: profiles and politics in Jeffersonian America / Wendy Bellion
- Children of media, children as media: optical telegraphs, Indian pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's system for cultural replication / Patricia Crain
- Telegraphy's corporeal fictions / Katherine Stubbs
- From phantom image to perfect vision: physiological optics, commercial photography, and the popularization of the stereoscope / Laura Burd Schiavo
- Sinful network or divine service: competing meanings of the telephone in Amish country / Diane Zimmerman Umble
- Souvenir foils: on the status of print at the origin of recorded sound / Lisa Gitelman
- R.L. Garner and the rise of the Edison phonograph in evolutionary philology / Gregory Radick
- Scissorizing and scrapbooks: nineteenth-century reading, remaking, and recirculating / Ellen Gruber Garvey
- Media on display: a telegraphic history of early American cinema / Paul Young.