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Record Nr.

UNISA996582064003316

Autore

Malin Brenton J. <1972->

Titolo

Feeling Mediated : A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America / / Brenton J. Malin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8147-7015-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Collana

Critical Cultural Communication

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Psychological aspects

Mass media and technology

Mass media and culture

Communication - Psychological aspects

Communication and technology

Mass media and culture - United States

Mass media - United States - Psychological aspects

Communication - United States - Psychological aspects

Mass media and technology - United States - History

Communication and technology - United States - History

History

Ressources Internet

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Conflicting Feelings: Technology and Emotions from Colonial America to the New Age of Communication -- 2. Touching Images: Stereoscopy, Technocracy, and Popular Photographic Physicalism -- 3. Electrifying Voices: Recording, Radio, and the New Friendly but Formal Speech -- 4. Projecting Emotions: Motion Pictures, Social Science, and Emotional Self-Control -- 5. Connecting Centuries: The Legacies of Media Physicalism; Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with



them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves.