Haunted Media: Electronic Presence from Telegraphy to Television

by Jeffrey Sconce and Sconce

Book Overview

In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to the introduction of television and computers-with paranormal or spiritual phenomena. By offering a historical analysis of the relation between communication technologies, discourses of modernity, and metaphysical preoccupations, Sconce demonstrates how accounts of "electronic presence" have gradually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822325721
• ISBN13: 9780822325727
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Boy - oh Boy!

Jeffrey Sconce shows us in this, his 23rd book, that he knows what writing is all about. Have a haunted television? Is your VCR possessed? Sconce tells you what to do with easy to use instructions on getting the ghost out of your media related appliances. With stories from people around the world who have been haunted by ghostly media (including one story from a woman who was nearly strangled by her radio, possessed by a dead killer's ghostly hand) with survival tips on how to keep your tv ghost free. I'm sure I'll never have problems with spectres in my DVD player again! Thank you Mr. Sconce!