New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States

by William Boddy

Book Overview

New Media and Popular Imagination places the current technological upheaval in audio-visual culture in the context of previous periods of twentieth-century media innovation. Examining popular and industry responses to the introduction of radio, television, and digital media into the home, the book underscores the continuities and disjunctions in the ways in which electronic media have been anticipated, promoted, and resisted in twentieth-century America...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019871145X
• ISBN13: 9780198711452
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"