New media, 1740-1915
By: edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree.
Contributors: Gitelman, Lisa.; Pingree, Geoffrey B.
Series: Media in transition
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Mass media -- History
Description: "Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that to study new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in their historic contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully defined and their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephone and phonograph to unfamiliar curiosities such as the physiognotrace and the zograscope. Moving beyond the story of technological innovation, the book considers emergent media as sites of ongoing cultural exchange. It considers how habits and structures of communication can frame a collective sense of public and private and how they inform our apprehensions of the "real.""--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.