Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio s -new- media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication,...

Seventy-five years after the infamous broadcast, does War of the Worlds still matter? This book answers with a resounding yes Contributors revisit the broadcast event in order to reconsider its place as a milestone in media history, and to explore its role as a formative event for understanding citizens' media use in times of crisis. Uniquely focused on the continuities between radio's new media moment and our contemporary era of social media, the collection takes War of the Worlds as a starting point for investigating key issues in twenty-first-century communication,...