New media, 1740-1915 / edited by Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree.
Contributor(s): Gitelman, Lisa
| Pingree, Geoffrey BSeries: Media in transitionPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003001: 8847ISBN: 0262072459Subject(s): New media | Mass media | Technological change | HistoryDDC classification: 302.23 GIT
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Reminding us that all media were once new, this book challenges the notion that tostudy new media is to study exclusively today's new media. Examining a variety of media in theirhistoric contexts, it explores those moments of transition when new media were not yet fully definedand their significance was still in flux. Examples range from familiar devices such as the telephoneand phonograph to unfamiliar curiosities such as the physiognotrace and the zograscope. Movingbeyond the story of technological innovation, the book considers emergent media as sites of ongoingcultural exchange. It considers how habits and structures of communication can frame a collectivesense of public and private and how they inform our apprehensions of the "real." By recoveringdifferent (and past) senses of media in transition, New Media, 1740-1915 promises to deepen ourhistorical understanding of all media and thus to sharpen our critical awareness of how they acquiretheir meaning and power.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Series Foreword (p. vii)
- Acknowledgments (p. ix)
- Introduction: What's New About New Media? (p. xi)
- Documents (p. xxiii)
- 1 Zograscopes, Virtual Reality, and the Mapping of Polite Society in Eighteenth-Century England (p. 1)
- 2 Heads of State: Profiles and Politics in Jeffersonian America (p. 31)
- 3 Children of Media, Children as Media: Optical Telegraphs, Indian Pupils, and Joseph Lancaster's System for Cultural Replication (p. 61)
- 4 Telegraphy's Corporeal Fictions (p. 91)
- 5 From Phantom Image to Perfect Vision: Physiological Optics, Commercial Photography, and the Popularization of the Stereoscope (p. 113)
- 6 Sinful Network or Divine Service: Competing Meanings of the Telephone in Amish Country (p. 139)
- 7 Souvenir Foils: On the Status of Print at the Origin of Recorded Sound (p. 157)
- 8 R. L. Garner and the Rise of the Edison Phonograph in Evolutionary Philology (p. 175)
- 9 Scissorizing and Scrapbooks: Nineteenth-Century Reading, Remaking, and Recirculating (p. 207)
- 10 Media on Display: A Telegraphic History of Early American Cinema (p. 229)
- Contributors (p. 265)
- Index (p. 267)
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