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

by Brenton Malin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814762794
• ISBN13: 9780814762790
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 317 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"