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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... efficiency of communication. The concepts of time and space reflect the significance of media to civilization. Media that emphasize time are those that are durable in character, such as parchment, clay, and stone.The heavy materials are ...
... efficiency of communication. The concepts of time and space reflect the significance of media to civilization. Media that emphasize time are those that are durable in character, such as parchment, clay, and stone.The heavy materials are ...
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... efficiency of communication. It will reflect to an important extent the efficiency of particular media of communication and its possibilities in creating conditions favourable to creative thought. In a sense these lectures become an ...
... efficiency of communication. It will reflect to an important extent the efficiency of particular media of communication and its possibilities in creating conditions favourable to creative thought. In a sense these lectures become an ...
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... efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words. In the handbooks of temple structure and adornment of sacred shrines ...
... efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words. In the handbooks of temple structure and adornment of sacred shrines ...
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... efficient. Scribes and officials charged with the collection and administration of rev- enues and of rents and tributes from the peasants became members of an organized civil service, and prepared accounts intelligible to their ...
... efficient. Scribes and officials charged with the collection and administration of rev- enues and of rents and tributes from the peasants became members of an organized civil service, and prepared accounts intelligible to their ...
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... efficient method of predicting time by dependence on the sun. In the period of confusion which accompanied the introduction of papyrus, Egypt was subjected to invasion.A fusion between the monarchy and the priesthood became the basis of ...
... efficient method of predicting time by dependence on the sun. In the period of confusion which accompanied the introduction of papyrus, Egypt was subjected to invasion.A fusion between the monarchy and the priesthood became the basis of ...
Inhalt
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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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