Book ID: CBB001552218

Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America (2014)

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Malin, Brenton J. (Author)


New York University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: viii + 309 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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 isolation and over-stimulation. Feeling Mediated investigates the larger context of such concerns, considering both how media technologies intersect with our emotional lives and how our ideas about these intersections influence how we think about and experience emotion and technology themselves. Drawing on extensive archival research, Brenton J. Malin explores the historical roots of much of our recent understanding of mediated feelings, showing how earlier ideas about the telegraph, phonograph, radio, motion pictures, and other once-new technologies continue to inform our contemporary thinking. With insightful analysis, Feeling Mediated explores a series of fascinating arguments about technology and emotion that became especially heated during the early 20th century. These debates, which carried forward and transformed earlier discussions of technology and emotion, culminated in a set of ideas that became institutionalized in the structures of American media production, advertising, social research, and policy, leaving a lasting impact on our everyday lives.

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Review David Suisman (2015) Review of "Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America". Journal of American History (pp. 579-580). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Galili, Doron
Chapman, Anne
Hume, Natalie
Ma, Shaoling
Asseraf, Arthur
Klobas, Mark
Concepts
Methods of communication; media
Technology and culture
Telegraphs; telephones
Communication technology
Technology and society
Broadcasting, radio and television
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Jamaica (Caribbean)
Haiti (Caribbean)
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Cuba
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