Feeling Mediated : : A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America / / Brenton J. Malin.
New technologies, whether text message or telegraph,inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring withthem both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connectionsand the ability to forge global communities, while on the other promptinganxieties about iso...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical Cultural Communication ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 19 black and white illustrations |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Conflicting Feelings -- 2. Touching Images -- 3. Electrifying Voices -- 4. Projecting Emotions -- 5. Connecting Centuries -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Summary: | New technologies, whether text message or telegraph,inevitably raise questions about emotion. New forms of communication bring withthem both fear and hope, on one hand allowing us deeper emotional connectionsand the ability to forge global communities, while on the other promptinganxieties about isolation and over-stimulation. FeelingMediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering bothhow media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideasabout these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotionand technology themselves.Drawing on extensive archival research, Brenton J. Malin exploresthe historical roots of much of our recent understanding of mediated feelings,showing how earlier ideas about the telegraph, phonograph, radio, motionpictures, and other once-new technologies continue to inform our contemporarythinking. With insightful analysis, FeelingMediated explores a series of fascinating arguments about technology andemotion that became especially heated during the early 20th century. These debates, which carried forward andtransformed earlier discussions of technology and emotion, culminated in a setof ideas that became institutionalized in the structures of American mediaproduction, advertising, social research, and policy, leaving a lasting impact onour everyday lives. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780814770153 9783110728996 |
DOI: | 10.18574/nyu/9780814762790.001.0001 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Brenton J. Malin. |