Communication in History -

Communication in History

Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

Peter Urquhart, Paul Heyer (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
348 Seiten
2018 | 7th edition
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978-1-138-72947-6 (ISBN)
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Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. This new edition features an expanded discussion of communications in the digital age, as well as the latest international scholarship on literacy, printing, and sound technologies.
Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Thirty-eight contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students to build upon their own knowledge and skill sets. From stone-age symbols and early writing to the Internet and social media, readers are introduced to an expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication media.

Paul Heyer is Professor Emeritus in the Communication Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Peter Urquhart is Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Table of Contents

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Preface

Part I The Media of Early Civilization






The Earliest Precursor of Writing, Denise Schmandt-Besserat



Media in Ancient Empires, Harold Innis



Civilization Without Writing – The Incas and the Quipu, Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher



The Origin of Writing, Andrew Robinson
Part II The Tradition of Western Literacy




The Greek Legacy, Eric Havelock



Writing and the Alphabet Effect, Robert K. Logan



Writing Restructures Consciousness, Walter Ong



Communication and Faith in the Middle Ages, James Burke and Robert Ornstein
Part III The Print Revolution




Paper and Block Printing – From China to Europe, Thomas F. Carter



The Invention of Printing, Lewis Mumford



Early Modern Literacies, Harvey J. Graff



Sensationalism in Early Printed News, Mitchell Stephens
Part IV Electricity Creates the Wired the World




Time, Space and the Telegraph, James W. Carey



The New Journalism, Michael Shudson



The Telephone Takes Command, Claude S. Fischer



Dream Worlds of Consumption, Rosalynd Williams



Wireless World, Stephen Kern
Part V Image and Sound




Early Photojournalism, Ulrich Keller



Inscribing Sound, Lisa Gittelman



The Making of the Phonograph, Jonathan Sterne



Early Motion Pictures, Daniel Czitrom



Movies Talk, Scott Eyman
Part VI Radio Days




The Public Voice of Radio, John Durham Peters



Early Radio, Susan J. Douglas



The Golden Age of Programming, Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross



Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Broadcast, Paul Heyer



Radio Voices, Michelle Hilmes



Radio in the Television Age, Peter Fornatale and Joshua E. Mills
Part VII TV Times




Television Begins, William Boddy



The New Languages, Edmund Carpenter



Making Room for TV, Lynn Spigel



From Turmoil to Tranquility in 1960s Television, Gary Edgarton



Boob Tubes, Fans, and Addicts, Richard Butsch
Part VIII New Media and Old in The Digital Age




How Media Became New, Lev Manovich



Popularizing the Internet, Janet Abbate



The World Wide Web, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
A Cultural History of Web 2.0, Alice E. Marwick



Social Media Retweets History, Tom Standage

Discussion Questions

Suggested Readings

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 187 x 235 mm
Gewicht 798 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-138-72947-7 / 1138729477
ISBN-13 978-1-138-72947-6 / 9781138729476
Zustand Neuware
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