Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by Jeffrey Sconce, Sconce

Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television Jeffrey Sconce, Sconce ebook
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Page: 272
ISBN: 9780822325727
Format: pdf

The use of artifacts as critical media aesthetics. The audible past: cultural origins of sound reproduction. Parikka, Jussi, Insect Media: An Archaelogy of Animals and Technology (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2010). From the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers. The article begins by stating that “many people believed telegraphic technology would lead to nothing less than a utopian age” (p22) It parallels the rise of spiritualism and telepathy with the advent of the telegraph. Here's a selection of spooky titles from Duke: Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television by Jeffrey Sconce. 1 Jeffrey Sconce, Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2000), 25. Can social upheaval Tags: abolitionism, american history, civil war, holidays, media history, religion, spiritualism, women's history. Just as we recycle the myth of communicating with the dead, we recycle our fears towards new technologies. Why do new media technologies always conjure talk of the undead? €�The Impossibility of Science Fiction: Against Buckland's Possible Worlds.” Screen 41:2 (Summer 2000): 203-216. Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television. Haunted media: electronic presence from telegraphy to television. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2000 Haunted Media: Electronic presence from Telegraphy to Television Duke: Duke University Press. This book introduces an archaeological approach to the study of media - one that sifts through the evidence to learn how media were written about, used, designed, preserved, and sometimes discarded. Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from.