Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan, Daniel J. Czitrom

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Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan, Daniel J. Czitrom

Title remainder

from Morse to McLuhan

Statement of responsibility

Daniel J. Czitrom

Instantiates

• Media and the American mind : from Morse to McLuhan

Publication

• Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, ©1982

Note

Includes index

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-245)

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media. -- "Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900 -- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 -- The ethereal hearth: American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940 -- Part 2: Theorists of modern communication -- Toward a new community?: modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park -- The rise of empirical media study: communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960 -- Metahistory, mythology, and the media: the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan -- Epilogue: dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future

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7836448

Dimensions

23 cm

Extent

xiv, 254 pages

Isbn

9780807815007

Lccn

81014810

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations

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.b10254602

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(WaOLN)25539