A History of Communications : Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet

✍ Scribed by Poe, Marshall T.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 351
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
HALF-TITLE
TITLE
COPYRIGHT
CONTENTS
TABLES AND CHARTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: MEDIA CAUSES AND MEDIA EFFECTS
1 HOMO LOQUENS: Humanity in the Age of Speech
2 HOMO SCRIPTOR: Humanity in the Age of Manuscripts
3 HOMO LECTOR: Humanity in the Age of Print
4 HOMO VIDENS: Humanity in the Age of Audiovisual Media
5 HOMO SOMNIANS: Humanity in the Age of the Internet
CONCLUSION: THE MEDIA AND HUMAN WELL-BEING
NOTES
INDEX

✦ Subjects

Communication Social aspects Digital media

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