The networked wilderness [[electronic resource] ] : communicating in early New England / / Matt Cohen

• Autore: Cohen Matt <1970->
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (250 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.209746/09032
• Soggetto topico: Communication - United States - History - 17th century; Communication - New England - History - 17th century; Literacy - New England - History - 17th century; Books and reading - New England - History - 17th century; Indians of North America - Communication
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Native audiences -- Good noise from New England -- Forests of gestures -- Multimedia combat and the Pequot War.
• Sommario/riassunto: In The Networked Wilderness, Matt Cohen examines communications systems in early New England and finds that, surprisingly, struggles over information technology were as important as theology, guns, germs, or steel in shaping the early colonization of North America. Colonists in New England have generally been viewed as immersed in a Protestant culture of piety and alphabetic literacy. At the same time, many scholars have insisted that the culture of the indigenous peoples of the region was a predominantly oral culture. But what if, Cohen posits, we thought about media and technology beyond the
• Titolo autorizzato: The networked wilderness
• ISBN: 0-8166-7049-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910829400203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II