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- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b11850375.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "1. Mediums and media -- 2. The voice from the void -- 3. Alien ether -- 4. Static and Stasis -- 5. Simulation and psychosis.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-247) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 257 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Haunted media.".
- catalog identifier "0822325535 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0822325721 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Haunted media.".
- catalog isPartOf "Console-ing passions".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Durham, NC : Duke University Press,".
- catalog relation "Haunted media.".
- catalog subject "302.23/09 21".
- catalog subject "Mass media Technological innovations History.".
- catalog subject "Mass media and culture History.".
- catalog subject "P96.T42 S37 2000".
- catalog subject "Telecommunication History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Mediums and media -- 2. The voice from the void -- 3. Alien ether -- 4. Static and Stasis -- 5. Simulation and psychosis.".
- catalog title "Haunted media : electronic presence from telegraphy to television / Jeffrey Sconce.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".