Feeling Mediated

A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America

Brenton J. Malin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

317 Seiten

2014
New York University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-6279-0 (ISBN)

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New technologies, whether text message or telegraph, inevitably raise questions about emotion. This book investigates the 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.

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.

Brenton J. Malin is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of American Masculinity under Clinton: Popular Media and the Nineties "Crisis of Masculinity."

Acknowledgments Introduction J 1. Conflicting Feelings: Technology and Emotions from Colonial America to the New Age of Communication 2. Touching Images: Stereoscopy, Technocracy, and Popular Photographic Physicalism 3. Electrifying Voices: Recording, Radio, and the New Friendly but Formal Speech 4. Projecting Emotions: Motion Pictures, Social Science, and Emotional Self-Control 5. Connecting Centuries: The Legacies of Media Physicalism Conclusion K Notes Index About the Author

Reihe/Serie	Critical Cultural Communication
Zusatzinfo	19 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-8147-6279-4 / 0814762794
ISBN-13	978-0-8147-6279-0 / 9780814762790
Zustand	Neuware