Feeling Mediated A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America

New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring with them both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connections and the ability to forge global communities, while on the other prompting anxieties about...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Malin, Brenton J., 1972- auteur (auteur)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : New York University Press [2014]
Edition:1st ed
Series:Critical Cultural Communication
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817326106719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Conflicting Feelings: Technology and Emotions from Colonial America to the New Age of Communication
  • 2. Touching Images: Stereoscopy, Technocracy, and Popular Photographic Physicalism
  • 3. Electrifying Voices: Recording, Radio, and the New Friendly but Formal Speech
  • 4. Projecting Emotions: Motion Pictures, Social Science, and Emotional Self-Control
  • 5. Connecting Centuries: The Legacies of Media Physicalism; Conclusion.