When the medium was the mission : the Atlantic telegraph and the religious origins of network culture / Jenna Supp-Montgomerie.

Author: Supp-Montgomerie, Jenna, author.

ImprintNew York : New York University Press, [2021]

Descriptionxiii, 295 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Note:Introduction: The Divine Destiny of the Shrinking Planet -- What's the Matter with Networks? Spectacular Technology, US Mission, and Global Unity -- The Great Fizzle: Protestant Affect, Obsolete Telegraphs, and US Nationalism -- The End of Distance and the End of War: The Oneida Community and US Techno- Utopianism -- "Received but Not Intelligible": Signals and Infrastructuralist Meaning -- Epilogue: Network Resonance.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.

Note:""When the Medium Was the Mission" explores religious origins of network culture."-- Provided by publisher.

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