Browsing by Author "Gansky, Paul Alton"
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Cold cuts : visions of refrigerators in United States media, 1942-1968
Gansky, Paul Alton (2011-05)After World War II in the United States, the household refrigerator and freezer became interwoven into a domestic reality defined by consumption, mechanical innovation, and a tension between spatial isolation and cultural ... -
Ill communication : designing media, preventing risks, and defining responsibility
Gansky, Paul Alton (2016-05)This dissertation investigates how health risks have historically affected the design of communications media in the United States. Concentrating upon the telephone from 1888 through 1913, and the cell phone from 1970 ...