Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan / Daniel J. Czitrom.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States.

Popular culture.

Mass media--Social aspects--United States.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; PART ONE: Contemporary Reactions to Three New Media; 1. ""Lightning Lines"" and the Birth of Modern Communication, 1838-1900; 2. American Motion Pictures and the New Popular Culture, 1893-1918; 3. The Ethereal Hearth: American Radio from Wireless through Broadcasting, 1892-1940; PART TWO: Theorists of Modern Communication; 4. Toward a New Community? Modern Communication in the Social Thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park; 5. The Rise of Empirical Media Study: Communications Research as Behavioral Science, 1930-1960

6. Metahistory, Mythology, and the Media: The American Thought of Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan; Epilogue: Dialectical Tensions in the American Media, Past and Future; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. [227]-245) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4696-0438-8

OCLC:

966803162