Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan

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Univ of North Carolina Press, 1982 - Social Science - 254 pages
In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments
 

Contents

Modern Communication 18381900
3
American Motion Pictures and
30
American Radio from Wireless
60
Toward a New Community? Modern Communication
91
Communications
122
Dialectical Tensions in the American Media
183
Bibliography
221
Index
247
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Daniel J. Czitrom is professor of history at Mount Holyoke College.

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