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From Mercury to Mars: War of the Worlds and the Invasion of Media Studies

November 11, 2013
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From Mercury to Mars: <i>War of the Worlds</i> and the Invasion of Media Studies

In this latest post in our From Mercury to Mars series, Josh Shepperd discusses the "War of the Worlds" broadcast as a foundational subject for intellectual history and, as the subject of social research like Hadley Cantril's The Invasion from Mars, one of the events that legitimated the very study of media.
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