Communication in History - Technology, Culture, Society

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...

Product details

• Authors: David Crowley, David (Mcgill University Crowley, Paul Heyer
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.02.2010
• EAN: 9780205693092
• ISBN: 978-0-205-69309-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: 100 Cases; Mysearchlab Series for Communi; 100 Cases
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science