Media and the American Mind : From Morse to McLuhan /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1982]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media.
- "Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900
- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918
- The ethereal hearth: American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940
- Part 2: Theorists of modern communication
- Toward a new community?: modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park
- The rise of empirical media study: communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960
- Metahistory, mythology, and the media: the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan
- Epilogue: dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future.


