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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... favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new political order emerged in which the absolute monarch was replaced by the royal family. The clergy of Heliopolis established a ...
... favoured the growth of political ideas. After a period of political confusion from 2360 BC to 2160 BC a new political order emerged in which the absolute monarch was replaced by the royal family. The clergy of Heliopolis established a ...
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... favoured increasing control under a monopoly of priests and the confinement of knowledge to special classes. Monopoly of knowledge incidental to complexity coincided with the spread of magical writings among the people.k Short cuts of ...
... favoured increasing control under a monopoly of priests and the confinement of knowledge to special classes. Monopoly of knowledge incidental to complexity coincided with the spread of magical writings among the people.k Short cuts of ...
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... favoured the collection of permanent records in widely scattered communities.Adaptability to communication over long distances emphasized uniformity in writing and the development of an established and authorized canon of signs ...
... favoured the collection of permanent records in widely scattered communities.Adaptability to communication over long distances emphasized uniformity in writing and the development of an established and authorized canon of signs ...
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... favoured the conventionalization of writing, decentralization of cities, the growth of continuing organization in the temples, and the religious control.Abstraction was furthered by the necessity of keeping accounts and the use of ...
... favoured the conventionalization of writing, decentralization of cities, the growth of continuing organization in the temples, and the religious control.Abstraction was furthered by the necessity of keeping accounts and the use of ...
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... favoured the growth of private business. Hammurabi claimed to have received the lawsf from the god of justice and subordinated ecclesiastical to civil courts.The king was the servant and not the source of law. Law guided the ruler and ...
... favoured the growth of private business. Hammurabi claimed to have received the lawsf from the god of justice and subordinated ecclesiastical to civil courts.The king was the servant and not the source of law. Law guided the ruler 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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