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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... scribes interpreted a slowly changing tradition and provided a justification for established authority. An extended social structure strengthened the position of an individual leader with military power who gave orders to agents who ...
... scribes interpreted a slowly changing tradition and provided a justification for established authority. An extended social structure strengthened the position of an individual leader with military power who gave orders to agents who ...
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... scribe, and keeper ofthe divine book of government of Ra became the Lord of ritual and magic. He represented cre ... scribes and of all knowledge, since the setting down of words in script suggested the possession of mysterious and ...
... scribe, and keeper ofthe divine book of government of Ra became the Lord of ritual and magic. He represented cre ... scribes and of all knowledge, since the setting down of words in script suggested the possession of mysterious and ...
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... scribes rose to administrative posts and assemblies. The profound disturbances in Egyptian civilization involved in the shift from absolute monarchy to a more democratic organization coincides with a shift in emphasis on stone as a ...
... scribes rose to administrative posts and assemblies. The profound disturbances in Egyptian civilization involved in the shift from absolute monarchy to a more democratic organization coincides with a shift in emphasis on stone as a ...
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... scribe's palette had two cups, for black and red ink, and a water-pot. He wrote in hieratic characters from right to left, arranging the text in vertical columns or horizontal lines of equal size, which formed pages. The rest of the ...
... scribe's palette had two cups, for black and red ink, and a water-pot. He wrote in hieratic characters from right to left, arranging the text in vertical columns or horizontal lines of equal size, which formed pages. The rest of the ...
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... scribes, and literacy was valued as a stepping-stone to prosperity and social rank. Scribes became a restricted class and writing a privileged profession.“The scribe comes to sit among the members of the assemblies ... no scribe fails ...
... scribes, and literacy was valued as a stepping-stone to prosperity and social rank. Scribes became a restricted class and writing a privileged profession.“The scribe comes to sit among the members of the assemblies ... no scribe fails ...
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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