Feeling mediated : a history of media technology and emotion in America / Brenton J. Malin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Malin, Brenton J., 1972-

Series:

Critical cultural communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication and technology--United States--History.

Communication and technology.

Mass media and technology--United States--History.

Mass media and technology.

Communication--United States--Psychological aspects.

Communication.

History.

United States.

Psychological aspects.

Mass media--United States--Psychological aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media and culture--United States.

Mass media and culture.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2014]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and overstimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brenton J. Malin explores the historical roots of much of our recent understanding of mediated feelings, showing how earlier ideas about the telegraph, phonograph, radio, motion pictures, and other once-new technologies continue to inform our contemporary thinking. With insightful analysis, Feeling Mediated explores a series of fascinating arguments about technology and emotion that became especially heated during the early 20th century. These debates, which carried forward and transformed earlier discussions of technology and emotion, culminated in a set of ideas that became institutionalized in the structures of American media production, advertising, social research, and policy, leaving a lasting impact on our everyday lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction

Conflicting feelings: technology and emotions from colonial America to the new age of communication

Touching images: stereoscopy, technocracy, and popular photographic

Physicalism

Electrifying voices: recording, radio, and the new friendly but formal speech

Projecting emotions: motion pictures, social science, and emotional self-control

Connecting centuries: the legacies of media physicalism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Other Format:

Print version: Malin, Brenton J. Feeling mediated : a history of media technology and emotion in America.

ISBN:

9780814770153

OCLC:

870588519

Access Restriction:

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