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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... probably made up a large part of temple libraries,Thoth was the framer of rules of ecclesiastical architecture. No essential difference existed between pictorial decorations and hieroglyphic script.Thoth represented intelligence and was ...
... probably made up a large part of temple libraries,Thoth was the framer of rules of ecclesiastical architecture. No essential difference existed between pictorial decorations and hieroglyphic script.Thoth represented intelligence and was ...
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... probably acquired horses16 and light four-spoked chariots from the Libyans to the west, and after 1580 BC the Nile valley was liberated. In a great victory at Megiddo in 1478 BCh Thutmose iii gave a final blow to Hyksos power. Under ...
... probably acquired horses16 and light four-spoked chariots from the Libyans to the west, and after 1580 BC the Nile valley was liberated. In a great victory at Megiddo in 1478 BCh Thutmose iii gave a final blow to Hyksos power. Under ...
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... probably checked its evolution after the introduction of papyrus and the brush.“The earliest form of writing seems to have been picture writing ... when the same fixed set of pictures were used over and over again to represent not ...
... probably checked its evolution after the introduction of papyrus and the brush.“The earliest form of writing seems to have been picture writing ... when the same fixed set of pictures were used over and over again to represent not ...
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... probably followed by linear writing such as might be easily cut on stone records. But the making of straight lines tended to pull up the clay, and a cylindrical reed stylus was stamped perpendicularly or obliquely on the tablet.A ...
... probably followed by linear writing such as might be easily cut on stone records. But the making of straight lines tended to pull up the clay, and a cylindrical reed stylus was stamped perpendicularly or obliquely on the tablet.A ...
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... probably followed by ruthless warfare between city-states and the emergence of military specialization and mercenary service. It has been sug- gested that the control of religion over writing and education entailed a neglect of ...
... probably followed by ruthless warfare between city-states and the emergence of military specialization and mercenary service. It has been sug- gested that the control of religion over writing and education entailed a neglect of ...
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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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