01894nam a2200241 i 4500008004100000020002100041040000800062082001800070100001900088245006500107260003600172300003000208336002700238337002800265338002700293500002000320520110300340650002301443700002501466942000801491952013801499999001501637240120s2003    xx ao         001 0 und d  a9-780262-57228-6  aGCL  a302.2309bGIT10aGitelman, Lisa10aNew Media 1740-1915 /cLisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree  bThe MIT Press,aLondon :c2003.  a271 Pages :bpbk.c23 cm.  atextbrdacontent2text  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes Index.  aA 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.  aMass Communication10aPingree, Geoffrey B.  2ddc  00102ddc406302_230900000000000_GIT7092358aLPLbLPLcBKd2024-01-20l0o302.2309 GITp12611r2024-01-20 13:05:51w2024-01-20yBK  c1684d1684