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Medium Meets Message: Can Media History and History of Technology Communicate?

Authors :
Agar, Jon
Source :
Journal of Contemporary History; Oct2005, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p793-803, 11p
Publication Year :
2005

Abstract

Reviews books on media history. "Purity in Print. Book Censorship in America From the Gilded Age to the Computer Age," by Paul S. Boyer; "A Social History of the Media, From Gutenberg to the Internet," by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke; "Atlantic Communications. The Media in American and German History From the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," edited by Norbert Finzsch and Ursula Lehmkuhl; "A Companion to Media Studies," edited by Angharad N. Valdivia.

Subjects

Subjects :
JOURNALISM
NONFICTION

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
00220094
Volume :
40
Issue :
4
Database :
Complementary Index
Journal :
Journal of Contemporary History
Publication Type :
Review
Accession number :
18444595
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009405056132