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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... ancient languages and therefore all his work during this stage was based on secondary source material.Yet the specialist schol- ars who produced this source material did not accept him as a colleague. It was a one-way influence only ...
... ancient languages and therefore all his work during this stage was based on secondary source material.Yet the specialist schol- ars who produced this source material did not accept him as a colleague. It was a one-way influence only ...
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... ancient history, and the classics. He was also run- ning out of time to complete the scholarly path he had set for himself. Under these pressures, Innis developed an unusual methodology that allowed him to distil vast amounts of second ...
... ancient history, and the classics. He was also run- ning out of time to complete the scholarly path he had set for himself. Under these pressures, Innis developed an unusual methodology that allowed him to distil vast amounts of second ...
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... ancient nations shows us, not only an enormous number of petty monarchies and republics swallowed up in the Empire of Rome, but that empire itself far more highly centralized than any preceding one had been.When the Roman dominion began ...
... ancient nations shows us, not only an enormous number of petty monarchies and republics swallowed up in the Empire of Rome, but that empire itself far more highly centralized than any preceding one had been.When the Roman dominion began ...
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... ancient texts which were arranged and stored in the library of the god, and prepared hymns, books, and litanies for the temple services. Priests trained in the Sumerian tradition and with the scholastic attitude emphasized the ...
... ancient texts which were arranged and stored in the library of the god, and prepared hymns, books, and litanies for the temple services. Priests trained in the Sumerian tradition and with the scholastic attitude emphasized the ...
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... ancient dialects of Sumerian and built a new palace at Nineveh. Instructions were given to search for documents and to make copies for its collection. Copying of Babylonian literature by Assyrian scribes enhanced the position of Nineveh ...
... ancient dialects of Sumerian and built a new palace at Nineveh. Instructions were given to search for documents and to make copies for its collection. Copying of Babylonian literature by Assyrian scribes enhanced the position of Nineveh ...
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32 | |
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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