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Subject(s)

• Printed ephemera—History—19th century [Browse]
• Consumption (Economics)—19th century—History [Browse]
• Mass media—Technological innovations [Browse]

Series

Fordham scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

How did we arrive at our contemporary consumer media economy? Why are we now fixated on screens, imbibing information that constantly expires, and longing for more direct or authentic kinds of experience? The Mediated Mind answers these questions by revisiting a previous media revolution, the nineteenth-century explosion of mass print. Like our own smartphone screens, printed paper and imprinted objects touched the most intimate regions of nineteenth-century life. The rise of this printed ephemera, and its new information economy, generated modern consumer experiences such as voracious collecting and curating, fantasies of disembodied mental travel, and information addiction. Susan Zieger demonstrates how the nineteenth century established affective, psychological, social, and cultural habits of media consumption that we still experience, even as pixels supersede paper. Revealing the history of our own moment, The Mediated Mind challenges the commonplace assumption that our own new media lack a past, or that our own experiences are unprecedented.

Notes

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Language note

In English.

Contents

• Front matter
• contents
• Introduction. From Paper to Pixel
• chapter 1. Temperate Media: Ephemera and Performance in the Making of Mass Culture
• chapter 2. Tobacco Papers, Holmes’s Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction
• chapter 3. Ink, Mass Culture, and the Unconscious
• chapter 4. “Dreaming True”: Playback, Immediacy, and “Du Maurierness”
• chapter 5. “A Form of Reverie, a Malady of Dreaming”: Dorian Gray, Personality, and Mass Culture
• Conclusion. Unknown Publics
• acknowledgments
• notes
• Index

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ISBN

• 0-8232-8158-2
• 0-8232-7985-5
• 0-8232-7984-7

OCLC

1036785907

Doi

• 10.1515/9780823279852

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