Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 01.01.2007 - 288 Seiten It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. |
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... Babylonia 4 —The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization 5 — The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire 6 — Parchment and Paper 7 — Paper and the Printing Press Notes Marginalia Suggested Reading Index 11 19 21 32 46 75 106 138 164 199 ...
... Babylonia 4 —The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization 5 — The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire 6 — Parchment and Paper 7 — Paper and the Printing Press Notes Marginalia Suggested Reading Index 11 19 21 32 46 75 106 138 164 199 ...
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... control over Egypt. Monopoly over writing supported an emphasis on religion and the time concept, which defeated efforts to solve the problem of space. 3 — BABYLONIA In Egypt ability to measure time and 45 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
... control over Egypt. Monopoly over writing supported an emphasis on religion and the time concept, which defeated efforts to solve the problem of space. 3 — BABYLONIA In Egypt ability to measure time and 45 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
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... Babylonia and Assyria was used for the making ofbrick, and as a medium in writing. Modern discoveries of large numbers of records facilitate a description of important characteristics of Sumerian and later civilizations, but they may ...
... Babylonia and Assyria was used for the making ofbrick, and as a medium in writing. Modern discoveries of large numbers of records facilitate a description of important characteristics of Sumerian and later civilizations, but they may ...
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... Babylonia reached “a high point of aesthetic excellence of hymns to deities, of prayers in lyric form, and of psalms of penitence.”9 Though religion became less important following the consolidation of power, 52 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... Babylonia reached “a high point of aesthetic excellence of hymns to deities, of prayers in lyric form, and of psalms of penitence.”9 Though religion became less important following the consolidation of power, 52 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... Babylonia was followed by an elaborate system of administration and complications ofsocial life, which required higher and lower courts and assured a decline in the authority of priests.Temples continued as extensive organizations and ...
... Babylonia was followed by an elaborate system of administration and complications ofsocial life, which required higher and lower courts and assured a decline in the authority of priests.Temples continued as extensive organizations and ...
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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