ISBN:
9780807899205
,
0807899208
,
9781469604381
,
1469604388
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 254 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Media and the American mind
DDC:
302.23
Keywords:
Mass media Social aspects
;
United States
;
Popular culture United States
;
Médias Aspect social
;
États-Unis
;
United States
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
Popular culture
;
Popular culture
;
Mass media Social aspects
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies
;
Mass media ; Social aspects
;
Popular culture
;
United States
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media. -- "Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900 -- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 -- The ethereal hearth: American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940 -- Part 2: Theorists of modern communication -- Toward a new community?: modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park -- The rise of empirical media study: communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960 -- Metahistory, mythology, and the media: the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan -- Epilogue: dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future.
Description / Table of Contents:
Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media."Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900 -- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 -- The ethereal hearth: American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940 -- Part 2: Theorists of modern communication -- Toward a new community?: modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park -- The rise of empirical media study: communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960 -- Metahistory, mythology, and the media: the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan -- Epilogue: dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-245) and index. - Description based on print version record
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