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by: Daniel J. Czitrom
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23
EAN: 9780807841075
ISBN: 0807841072
Label: The University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 24, 1983
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Sales Rank: 556594
Studio: The University of North Carolina Press
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In a fascinating and comprehensive intellectual history of modern communication in America, Daniel Czitrom examines the continuing contradictions between the progressive possibilities that new communications technologies offer and their use as instruments of domination and exploitation.
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Rating: - A Nice Surprise
While from the perspective of 2007 one might think of a host of media to include in the historical development of media, the media selecte--the telegraph, motion picture (nidkelodeon), and radio) are just the front end for the real meat of the book in its intellectual history in the second half of the book. This intellectual story is excellent in its alternative line of intellectual development from the John Dewey roots to the 1970s, instead of teh Marxist interpretations that seem so dominant in ... Read More
Rating: - Not just another history book...
Although Czitron tackles an ambitious subject, mapping the history of the media, he succeeds where so many others have failed.
Czitron traces the media not as separate and discrete events, but as arenas wherein we as a society have sought to confront some of the more fundamental issues of our time. To me, the value of the book lies precisely in this uncovering of social themes. Unlike other media history books, which show how one medium influenced another's development (e.g., the telegraph ... Read More
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