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This anthology will make a major contribution to the history of media by providing both new information and new models. In carefully prepared case studies -- ranging from the employment of female telegraph operators to the use of sound recording to determine if apes had a language -- this volume supplies new ideas about how media shape culture and how cultures shape media. -- Tom Gunning, Chair, Committee on Cinema and Media, University of Chicago, and author of The Cinema of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity

About the Author

Lisa Gitelman is Professor of English and Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. She is the coeditor of New Media, 1710–1915 (2003) and author of Always Already New: Media, History, and the Data of Culture (2006), both published by the MIT Press. Geoffrey B. Pingree is Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies and English at Oberlin College.

Reviews

"This anthology will make a major contribution to the history of media by providing both new information and new models. In carefully prepared case studies - ranging from the employment of female telegraph operators to the use of sound recording to determine if apes had a language - this volume supplies new ideas about how media shape culture and how cultures shape media." - Tom Gunning, Edwin A. and Betty L. Bergman Distingished Service Professor, Department of Art History and the Committee on Cinema and Media, University of Chicago