TY - JOUR
T1 - The Democratic Surround: Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties
AU - Peariso, Craig J.
N1 - In his latest book, The Democratic Surround, the media historian Fred Turner asks not what Democracy might mean, as several political theorists have done in recent years, but just who the democratic citizen Americans envision might be and how their conception of that individual was formulated.
PY - 2016/9
Y1 - 2016/9
N2 - In his latest book, The Democratic Surround , the media historian Fred Turner asks not what Democracy might mean, as several political theorists have done in recent years, but just who the democratic citizen Americans envision might be and how their conception of that individual was formulated. Beginning in the late 1930s with a brief, fascinating account of Americans’ distrust of the technologies of mass communication—a distrust sparked, in many ways, by European fascists’ apparent use of films and radio broadcasts to turn populations into mindless followers—Turner chronicles a cultural response that looked to use open-ended media installations to foster a contrasting, productive individualism
AB - In his latest book, The Democratic Surround , the media historian Fred Turner asks not what Democracy might mean, as several political theorists have done in recent years, but just who the democratic citizen Americans envision might be and how their conception of that individual was formulated. Beginning in the late 1930s with a brief, fascinating account of Americans’ distrust of the technologies of mass communication—a distrust sparked, in many ways, by European fascists’ apparent use of films and radio broadcasts to turn populations into mindless followers—Turner chronicles a cultural response that looked to use open-ended media installations to foster a contrasting, productive individualism
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaw301
U2 - 10.1093/jahist/jaw301
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw301
M3 - Article
VL - 103
JO - Journal of American History
JF - Journal of American History
IS - 2
ER -