Empire and CommunicationsRowman & Littlefield, 2007 - 287 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 influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, 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. With a new introduction by Alexander John Watson, author of Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis, and a new foreword by series editor Andrew Calabrese, this previously hard-to-obtain book is now readily available again. All communication scholars should have this classic book on their shelves, and it also serves as a great supplementary text in communication and economics courses. |
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... cuneiform appeared on the tablet . If the stylus was pressed lightly a large number of short strokes was necessary to make a single sign . Economy of effort demanded a reduction in the number of strokes , and the remnants of pictorial ...
... cuneiform appeared on the tablet . If the stylus was pressed lightly a large number of short strokes was necessary to make a single sign . Economy of effort demanded a reduction in the number of strokes , and the remnants of pictorial ...
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... cuneiform writing , and could be written quickly . It included numbers which had been introduced from India . It was probably developed in relation to parchment as a new medium . As a result of the influence of Arameans on Semitic trade ...
... cuneiform writing , and could be written quickly . It included numbers which had been introduced from India . It was probably developed in relation to parchment as a new medium . As a result of the influence of Arameans on Semitic trade ...
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... cuneiform alphabet of twenty - nine signs in contrast with the twenty - four consonants of Egypt and the twenty - two signs of the Hebrews and the Canaanites . The decline of Mycenean civilization after the Dorian ' inva- sion opened ...
... cuneiform alphabet of twenty - nine signs in contrast with the twenty - four consonants of Egypt and the twenty - two signs of the Hebrews and the Canaanites . The decline of Mycenean civilization after the Dorian ' inva- sion opened ...
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Publishers Note | 9 |
Preface by Harold A Innis | 19 |
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