John Durham Peters' "Speaking into the Air"
Theory & Philosophy
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The Effect of Media on the Relationship to Time and Space
New media are able to facilitate or to allow communication with the dead. Media define and enlarge the spirit world that is populated by spectral beings. Peter's maintains that the human in his words retained its weight, even amid new norms of spiritual communication inspired by the swiftness of electricity.
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