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Informationen zum Autor David Crowley ! McGill University Paul Heyer ! Simon Fraser University Klappentext Updated in a new 6th edition! Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings! this anthology continues to be! as one reviewer wrote! the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive! intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history. From print to the Internet! this book encompasses a wide-range of topics! that introduces readers to a more expansive! intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history. Zusammenfassung Updated in a new 6th edition! Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings! this anthology continues to be! as one reviewer wrote! "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive! intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet! this book encompasses a wide-range of topics! that introduces readers to a more expansive! intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1 - Media of Early Civilization 1. The Earliest Precursors of Writing! Schmandt-Besserat 2. Media in Ancient Empires! Innis 3. Civilization with Writing - The Incas and the Quipu! Ascher and Ascher 4. The Origins of Writing! Robinson Part 2 - The Tradition of Western Literacy 5. The Greek Legacy! Havelock 6. Writing and the Alphabet Effect! Logan 7. Orality! Literacy and Modern Media! Ong 8. Communication and Faith in the Middle Ages! Burke and Ornstein Part 3 - The Print Revolution 9. Paper and Block Printing -- From China to Europe! Carter 10. The Invention of Printing! Mumford 11. Aspects of the Printing Revolution! Eisenstein 12. Early Modern Literacies! Graff 13. The Trade in News! Thompson Part 4 - Electricity Creates the Wired World 14. Telegraphy -- The Victorian Internet! Standage 15. The New Journalism! Schudson 16. The Telephone Takes Command! Fischer 17. Time! Space and the Telegraph! Carey Part 5 - Image and Sound Technologies and the Emergence of Consumer Society 18. Dream Worlds of Consumption! Williams 19. Early Photojournalism! Keller 20. Inscribing Sound! Gitelman 21. The making of the Phonograph! Sterne 22. Early Motion Pictures! Czitrom 23. Movies Talk! Eyman 24. Mass Media and the Star System! Fowles Part 6 - Radio Days 25. Wireless World! Kern 26. The Public Voice of Radio! Peters 27. Early Radio! Douglas 28. The Golden Age of Programming! Sterling and Kitross 29. Radio Voices! Hilmes 30. Radio in the Television Age! Fornatale and Mills Part 7 - TV Times 31. Television Begins! Boddy 32. The New Languages! Carpenter 33. Making Room for TV! Spigel 34. Television Transforms the News! Stephens 35. Two Cultures - Television versus Print! Postman and Paglia 36. TV in the New-age! Jenkins Part 8 - New Media and Old in the (Digital) Information Age 37. The Control Revolution! Beniger 38. How Media Beca...
