TY - BOOK AU - Czitrom,Daniel J. TI - Media and the American mind: from Morse to McLuhan SN - 9780807815007 AV - HN90 .M435 1982 PY - 1982/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Popular culture KW - United States N1 - Bibliography: pages 227.-245; 4; Part 1: Contemporary reaction to three new media. "Lightning lines" and the birth of modern communication, 1838-1900 ; American motion pictures and the new popular culture, 1893-1918 ; The ethereal hearth : American radio from wireless through broadcasting, 1892-1940 --; Part 2: Theorists of modern communication. Toward a new community? : modern communication in the social thought of Charles Horton Cooley, John Dewey, and Robert E. Park ; The rise of empirical media study : communications research as behavioral science, 1930-1960 ; Metahistory, mythology, and the media : the American thought of Harold Innis and Marshal McLuhan --; Epilogue: Dialectical tensions in the American media, past and future; 2 ER -