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040			_aGCL
082			_a302.2309 _bGIT
100	1	0	_aGitelman, Lisa
245	1	0	_aNew Media 1740-1915 / _cLisa Gitelman and Geoffrey B. Pingree
260			_bThe MIT Press, _aLondon : _c2003.
300			_a271 Pages : _bpbk. _c23 cm.
336			_atext _brdacontent _2text
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aIncludes Index.
520			_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.
650			_aMass Communication
700	1	0	_aPingree, Geoffrey B.
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