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1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media. -- "Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900 -- American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 -- The ethereal hearth: American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940 -- Part 2: Theorists of modern communication -- Toward a new community?: modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park -- The rise of empirical media study: communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960 -- Metahistory, mythology, and the media: the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan -- Epilogue: dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mass media -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Mass media -- Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Popular culture -- United States.
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Popular culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Czitrom, Daniel J., 1951- Media and the American mind. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©1982 9780807841075 (DLC) 81014810 (OCoLC)7836448 |
| ISBN |
9780807899205 (electronic book) |
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0807899208 (electronic book) |
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9781469604381 (electronic book) |
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1469604388 (electronic book) |
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