When the Medium Was the Mission
When the Medium Was the Mission An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networksWhen Samuel Morse sent the words "what hath God wrought" from the US Supreme Court to…
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When the Medium Was the Mission
An innovative exploration of religion's influence on communication networksWhen Samuel Morse sent the words "what hath God wrought" from the US Supreme Court to Baltimore in mere minutes, it was the first public demonstration of words travelling faster than human beings and farther than a line of sight in the US. President Buchanan declared that the Atlantic Telegraph would be "an instrument destined by divine providence to diffuse religion, civilization, liberty, and law throughout the world" through which "the nations of Christendom would] spontaneously unite." Evangelical Protestantism embraced the new This strange confluence of media, religion, technology, and US nationhood lies at the foundation of global networks.The advent of a telegraph cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean was viewed much the way the internet is today, to herald a coming world-wide unification.
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