1 option
When the medium was the mission : the Atlantic telegraph and the religious origins of network culture / Jenna Supp-Montgomerie.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Supp-Montgomerie, Jenna, author.
- Series:
- North American religions.
- NYU scholarship online.
- North American religions
- NYU scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Atlantic Telegraph Company (Limited).
- Church and mass media--History.
- Church and mass media.
- Protestantism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : New York University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- ""When the Medium Was the Mission" explores religious origins of network culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2021.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 9, 2021).
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781479801503
- 147980150X
- OCLC:
- 1350705668
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.