Author

Contributions

  • Gitelman, Lisa. - Contributor
  • Pingree, Geoffrey B. - Contributor

Publication

2003 - MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

67,750 words, Guess

Page Count

271 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing163203

Classifications

  • DDC302.23/09
  • LCCP90 .N5 2003

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Media in transition

Other Editions

  • New media, 1740-1915MIT Press2003-01-01

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