Tools of Their Tools
Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2009
335 pages
978-1-4438-1141-5 (ISBN)
Description
The book explores the role of communication technologies in American cultural practice over the last 150 years. Communication technologies are here understood to include audio and visual reproduction technologies, analogue telecommunications such as traditional telephony, radio and television broadcasts, digital telecommunications, computer-mediated communications, telegraphy, and computer networks. The study of the impact of such technologies is a way to explore the various flows and tensions of American culture. How has American society molded communication technologies? How have they, in turn, shaped American history? Are Americans still, in the words of Thoreau, ",tools of their tools",? More so or less than during the philosopher's Walden days? How do America's cultural, ethical, and economic assumptions determine and limit the ways in which telecommunications function in American society? Fascinating questions abound.
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Krzysztof Majer | Grzesiek Kosc | Krzysztof Majer
Tools of Their Tools
Communications Technologies and American Cultural Practice
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- HOARDING THE GOLD
- THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN RADIO
- INTERPRETING THE NEW DEAL
- IS ANYBODY LISTENING? VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND THEIR TV DEBATES
- STILL CHEATING US SOFTLY
- AMERICAN WAR ON TERROR IN SLEEPER CELL
- THE MESSAGE IS THE MASSAGE
- NEW MEDIA
- FAN CULTURE IN THE INTERNET
- HUNTING FOR RACISM-ONLINE CITIZEN CRITICS' REVIEWS OF KEVIN MACDONALD'S THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND
- NEGOTIATING THE VIRTUAL
- FROM THE VISIBLE TO THE VISUAL
- TRANSGENERIC TENDENCIES AND MULTIMEDIAL GENRES IN THE POETRY OF T. S. ELIOT AND THE FRENCH SYMBOLISTS
- NOSTALGIC AVANT-GARDES
- ELECTRONIC FLOATING OPERA AND CHALLENGES OF FICTIONAL NAVIGATION IN JOHN BARTH'S NOVEL COMING SOON!!! A NARRATIVE
- AI AND LITERATURE
- THE ACTUAL AND VIRTUAL IDENTITY OF CORMAC MCCARTHY
- HOW FAR DO WE HAVE TO GO?
- THE FUTURE GROWLS
- CALLING THE ONE YOU LOVE
- HOME CALLING / CALLING HOME
- THE GRAPHIC REVOLUTION AND REPRESENTATIONS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN MAGAZINES, 1880-1900
- TECHNOLOGY FOR THEATER
- "INCOHERENT NARRATIVE, JAGGED TECHNIQUE, DISTURBING INTENSITY OF EMOTIONS."
- CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
