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Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television Paperback - 2000

by Jeffrey Sconce


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Within a five-year span in the 1840s, the American public witnessed two of the most remarkable moments in telecommunications history.

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"Death, desire and distance are Jeffrey Sconce's companions in this truly spooky journey through the 'troubling afterlife of modernity.' His brilliant and beautifully written history of the uncanny powers ascribed to the electronic media is a wonderful catalogue of popular fantasies. But more profoundly it is a symptomatology of media theory too. In fact and fiction alike we are caught up in wild imaginings that seek transcendance in transmission, from the ether to the Internet. Where redemption is sought from the 'liveness' of technology, Sconce advises caution. Or, as one of the quirky spirits he unearths implores via radio, 'bring a halibut!' "--John Hartley, Queensland University of Technology

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  • Title Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television
  • Author Jeffrey Sconce
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd ed.
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press, -
  • Date 2000-08-14
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780822325727 / 0822325721
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.18 x 0.8 in (23.60 x 15.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Telecommunication - History, Mass media - Technological innovations -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00029387
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.230

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  • Choice, 01/01/2001, Page 897

About the author

Jeffrey Sconce is Associate Professor in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Northwestern University.

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