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Czitrom Daniel J. <1951-> |
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Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan / / Daniel J. Czitrom |
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Chapel Hill : , : University of North Carolina Press, , 1982 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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Popular culture - United States |
Mass media - Social aspects - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliography (p. [227]-245) and index. |
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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 |
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