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 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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Critical Cultural Communication
Physical Description:1 online resource (318 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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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.