Radio, modern communication media and the technological sublime.
Leo Marx and others have argued that the reception of technology in the United States during the nineteenth century was conditioned by the 'technological sublime'. John F. Kasson defined this as a 'powerful emotion, utility, and moral purpose', suffused with the conviction that the health of the rep...
| Publicado en: | Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media Vol. 6; no. 2/3; pp. 129 - 144 |
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Intellect Ltd.
2008
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