Revolutions in Communication - Bill Kovarik

Revolutions in Communication

Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age

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Buch | Softcover
356 Seiten
2011
Continuum Publishing Corporation (Verlag)
978-1-4411-1460-0 (ISBN)
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The rise of the Information Age, the fall of the traditional media, and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. This book is an authoritative introduction to the history of various branches of media.
"Revolutions in Communication" is an authoritative introduction to the history of all branches of media. The rise of the Information Age, the fall of the traditional media, and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. We need to understand these revolutions because they influence our present and future as much as any other trend in history. And we need to understand them not simply on a national basis - an unstable foundation for history in any event - but rather as part of the emergent global communications network. Unlike most of the current texts in the field, "Revolutions in Communication" is an up-to-date resource, expanding upon contemporary scholarship. It provides students and teachers with detailed sidebars about key figures, technical innovations, global trends, and social movements, as well as supplemental reading materials, and a fully supportive companion website.

Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication at Radford University, a publicly supported graduate level school located near (and once part of) Virginia Tech. He earned his B.S. in Journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974, his M.A. in Communications at the University of South Caroline in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Public Communications at the University of Maryland in 1993. His previous books include Mass Media and Environmental Conflict (Sage, 1997) and Web Design for the Mass Media (Allyn Bacon, 2001).

Chapter 1: The Toolbox - Understanding Media History; First Mass Media Revolutions; Chapter 2: Impact of the Printing Revolution on Religious and Political Thought; Chapter 3: The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Partisan Mass Media; Chapter 4: The Independent Commercial Media Revolution; The Visual Revolution; Chapter 5: Photography: Visualizing Social Revolution; Chapter 6: Motion Pictures: Dream Factories and Pleasure Palaces; Chapter 7: Advertising, Public Relations and the Crafted Image; The Electronic Revolution; Chapter 8: Radio: Crystal Set Hams and the National Hearth; Chapter 9: Television: the Wars in your Living Room; Chapter 10: Satellites: First Paths through the Global Village; The Digital Revolution; Chapter 11: Computers as Accidental Empires; Chapter 12: Networks become Personal; Chapter 13: Web2 and Gnu: Free Global Culture; The Future of the Massed Personal Media; Chapter 14: Disorganized Intelligence and Organized Chaos; Bibliography; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.9.2011
Zusatzinfo 80 bw illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-4411-1460-2 / 1441114602
ISBN-13 978-1-4411-1460-0 / 9781441114600
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