Media and the American Mind : From Morse to McLuhan /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [1982]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Popular culture.
Mass media > Social aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Culture populaire > États-Unis.
Medias > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Popular culture > United States.
Mass media > Social aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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