Communication in History: Technology, Culture, SocietyUpdated 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. |
Contents
Part I The Media of Early Civilization | 1 |
Part II The Tradition of Western Literacy | 35 |
Part III The Print Revolution | 63 |
Part IV Electricity Creates the Wired World | 101 |
Part V Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society | 133 |
Part VI Radio Days | 183 |
Part VII TV Times | 219 |
Part VIII New Media and Old in the Information Age | 273 |
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Credits | 312 |
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Other editions - View all
Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society David Crowley,Paul Heyer Limited preview - 2015 |
Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society David J. Crowley,Paul Heyer No preview available - 2011 |
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