ISBN:
9781443809788
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1443809780
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (330 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tools of their tools
DDC:
303.48330973
Keywords:
Telecommunication Social aspects
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United States
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Telecommunication History
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United States
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United States
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Telecommunication History
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Telecommunication Social aspects
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Telecommunication
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Telecommunication ; Social aspects
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Telekommunikation
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Gesellschaft
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Society & culture: general
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Literature & literary studies
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History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General
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Media, information & communication industries
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United States
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USA
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
Hoarding the gold :US technology and international trade /Andrew Ross --The golden age of American radio :entertainment, news, and politics in the United States, 1926 until 1956 /David A. Jones and Joanna Waluk --Interpreting the New Deal :the public of the fireside chats /Raffaele Asquer --Is anybody listening :vice presidential candidates and their TV debates /Maciej Turek --Still cheating us softly :video news releases (VNRs) masquerading as solid news in American media /Małgorzata Gajda-Łaszewska --American War on Terror in Sleeper cell :Arab and Muslim Americans after 9/11 /Aleksandra M. Różalska --The message is the massage :rethinking Marshall McLuhan's theories in the age of new media /Mirosław A. Miernik --New media :Internet effects on American news reporting /Richard Profozich --Fan culture in the Internet /Ewa Grzeszczyk --Hunting for racism :online citizen critics' reviews of Kevin Macdonald's The last king of Scotland /Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska --Negotiating the virtual :The matrix. the Internet and a new techno-logic /Marek M. Wojtaszek --From the visible to the visual :negotiating the technological in American cinematic SF /Dorota Gloańska --Transgeneric tendencies and multimedial genres in the poetry of T.S. Eliot and the French symbolists /Alicja Piechuchka --Nostalgic avant-gardes :writing poetry in the age of e-mail /Julia Fiedorczuk --Electronic floating opera and challenges of fictional navigation in John Barth's novel Coming soon!!! a narrative /Marta Koval --AI and literature :Richard Powers's Galatea 2.2 and David Lodge's Thinks /Kate Delabney --The actual and virtual identity of Cormac McCarthy :a case study /Hanna Boguta-Marchel --How far do we have to go :teleportation in the service of American cultural communication in Octavia Butler's Kindred (1979) /Beata Zawadka --The future growls :voices and machines in Eudora Welty's One writer's beginnings /Noel Polk --Calling the one you love :the telephone in Mart Crowley's The boys in the band and Robert Chesley's Jerker or The helping hand /Tomasz Basiuk --Home calling/calling home :women and telephony in the works of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Amulya Malladi /Izabella Kimak --The graphic revolution and representation of African Americans in American magazines, 1880-1900 /Matthew Wilson --Technology for theater :how inventions changed 19th-century American theater /Radosław Rybkowski --"Incoherent narrative, jagged technique, disturbing intensity of emotions-" :the case of John Cassavetes /Elżbieta Durys.
Abstract:
The book explores the role of communication technologies in American cultural practice over the last 150 years. Communication technologies are here understood to include audio and visual reproduction technologies, analogue telecommunications such as tradi
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