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When the Medium Was the Mission : The Atlantic Telegraph and the Religious Origins of Network Culture /

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""When the Medium Was the Mission" explores religious origins of network culture"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Supp-Montgomerie, Jenna (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	Inglés
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2021]
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:	Atlantic Telegraph Company (Limited) Protestantism. Church and mass media. Protestantisme. Église et medias > Histoire. Protestantism Church and mass media > History. History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Texto completo

Table of Contents:

Introduction : the divine destiny of the shrinking planet
What's the matter with networks? Spectacular technology, US mission, and global unity
The great fizzle : Protestant affext, obsolete telegraphs, and US nationalism
The end of distance and the end of war : the Oneida community and US techno-utopianism
"Received but not intelligible" : signals and infrastructural meaning
Epilogue : network resonance.