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 their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph to unfamiliar curiosities such as the physiognotrace and the zograscope. Moving beyond the story of technological innovation, the book considers emergent media as sites of ongoing cultural exchange. It considers how habits and structures of communication can frame a collective sense of public and private and how they inform our apprehensions of the real. By recovering different (and past) senses of media in transition, New Media, 1740-1915 promises to deepen our historical understanding of all media and thus to sharpen our critical awareness of how they acquire their meaning and power.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
ISBN-13
9780262572286
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95192265
Product Key Features
Author
Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree
Publication Name
New Media, 1740-1915
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
History
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
306 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
178mm
Item Weight
476g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Media in Transition
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Lisa Gitelman, Geoffrey B. Pingree
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