01746nam a2200229 i 4500 240120s2003 xx ao 001 0 und d 9-780262-57228-6 GCL 302.2309 GIT Gitelman, Lisa New Media 1740-1915 / Lisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree The MIT Press, London : 2003. 271 Pages : pbk. 23 cm. text rdacontent text unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes Index. A cultural history of media that were "new media" in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. 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." By recovering different (and past) senses of media in transition, New Media, 1740-1915 promises to deepen our historical understanding of all media and thus to sharpen our critical awareness of how they acquire their meaning and power. Mass Communication Pingree, Geoffrey B. ddc 0 0 ddc 0 302_230900000000000_GIT 0 2358 LPL LPL BK 2024-01-20 0 302.2309 GIT 12611 2024-01-20 13:05:51 2024-01-20 BK 1684 1684