Communication in history : technology, culture, society
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Communication in history : technology, culture, society
Longman, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This accessible volume provides a comprehensive introductory reader to the history of communication. Covering a period of 50,000 years, it examines the role that human communication, and its technical extensions, has played in the transformation of society, from earliest times to today's "information age". It is divided into eight sections, each section includes an introduction which highlights the essays in that section and provides background commentary noting important concepts.
目次
- Part 1 The media of early civilization
- the art and symbols of Ice Age man
- the earliest precursor of writing
- media in ancient empires
- civilization without writing - the Incas and the Quipu. Part 2 The tradition of western literacy
- the consequences of literacy
- the Greek legacy
- reading and writing
- communication in the Middle Ages. Part 3 The print revolution
- paper and block printing - from China to Europe
- the rise of the reading public
- print, space, and closure
- files, bureaucrats and intellectuals. Part 4 Electricity creates the wired world
- lightning line
- time, space, and the Telegraph
- the new journalism
- early uses of the telephone. Part 5 Image technologies and the emergence of mass society
- dream worlds of consumption
- photograpy transforms the visual arts
- the graphic revolution
- advertising, consumers, and culture. Part 6 Radio days
- wireless world
- broadcasting begins
- documenting media
- understanding radio. Part 7 TV Times
- the new languages
- television and society
- television and working class culture
- television transforms the news. Part 8 New media and old in the information age
- the control revolution
- newspapers in the computer age
- the new psychotechnologies
- computers, tools, and human reason.
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