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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... centre, was the cornerstone for the renewal of Western civilization. He lived his life accompanied by the ghosts of so many of the bright minds that did not return from the conflict.This outlook, in turn, saddled him with a mindnumbing ...
... centre, was the cornerstone for the renewal of Western civilization. He lived his life accompanied by the ghosts of so many of the bright minds that did not return from the conflict.This outlook, in turn, saddled him with a mindnumbing ...
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... peripheral to empire (Canada), he sought to gauge its effect on the centre.The reason for this change was that the demand for pulp and paper grew out of the rise of mass-circulation daily newspapers and their 13 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
... peripheral to empire (Canada), he sought to gauge its effect on the centre.The reason for this change was that the demand for pulp and paper grew out of the rise of mass-circulation daily newspapers and their 13 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
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... centre which has been the heart of an economic empire, to appraise economic considerations by the use of tools that are in themselves products of economic considerations. A citizen of one of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which ...
... centre which has been the heart of an economic empire, to appraise economic considerations by the use of tools that are in themselves products of economic considerations. A citizen of one of the British Commonwealth of Nations, which ...
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... centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and diffusion of worship supported the growth of kingdoms.The calendar became a source of royal authority. Detachment of the calendar from the concrete phenomena of the heavens and ...
... centres, their influence was extended by theologians, and diffusion of worship supported the growth of kingdoms.The calendar became a source of royal authority. Detachment of the calendar from the concrete phenomena of the heavens and ...
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... . Recognition of this fact has been described as implying the discovery of government.5 In Heliopolis as the centre of priestly power, the doctrine was developed in which God was conceived of as an intelligence which has 34 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... . Recognition of this fact has been described as implying the discovery of government.5 In Heliopolis as the centre of priestly power, the doctrine was developed in which God was conceived of as an intelligence which has 34 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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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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