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020			_a0822325535 (cloth : alk. paper)
020			_a0822325721 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050	1	4	_aP 96 _bS422h 2000
082	0	0	_a302.2309
100	1		_aSconce, Jeffrey, _d1962-
245	1	0	_aHaunted media : _belectronic presence from telegraphy to television / _cJeffrey Sconce.
260			_aDurham, NC : _bDuke University Press, _c2000.
300			_ax, 257 p. : _bill. ; _c23 cm.
440		0	_aConsole-ing passions
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.
505			_a1. Mediums and media -- 2. The voice from the void -- 3. Alien ether -- 4. Static and Stasis -- 5. Simulation and psychosis.
520			_a"In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media--from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers--with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between communication technologies, discourses of modernity, and metaphysical preoccupations, Sconce demonstrates how accounts of 'electronic presence' have gradually changed over the decades from a fascination with the boundaries of space and time to a more generalized anxiety over the seeming sovereignty of technology. Sconce focuses on five important cultural moments in the history of telecommunication from the mid-nineteenth century to the present: the advent of telegraphy; the arrival of wireless communication; radio's transformation into network broadcasting; the introduction of television; and contemporary debates over computers, cyberspace, and virtual reality. In the process of examining the trajectory of these technological innovations, he discusses topics such as the rise of spiritualism as a utopian response to the electronic powers presented by telegraphy and how radio, in the twentieth century, came to be regarded as a way of connecting to a more atomized vision of the afterlife."--Book cover.
650		0	_aMass media _xTechnological innovations _xHistory.
650		0	_aTelecommunication _xHistory.
650		0	_aMass media and culture _xHistory.
650		4	_aMedios de comunicación de masas _xHistoria.
650		4	_aComunicación y tecnología _xHistoria _zEstados Unidos.
650		4	_aMedios de comunicación de masas _xAspectos sociales.
650		4	_aComunicación y tecnología _xHistoria.
650		4	_aCiberespacio.
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