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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... followed by rapid increase in settlement, exhaustion of the mines, and the development of new staples adapted to the demands of Pacific Ocean navigation such as timber.The railway and the steamship facilitated concentration on ...
... followed by rapid increase in settlement, exhaustion of the mines, and the development of new staples adapted to the demands of Pacific Ocean navigation such as timber.The railway and the steamship facilitated concentration on ...
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... followed cheap newsprint. In this reference to the problem of attack it will be clear that we have been concerned with the use of certain tools that have proved effective in the interpretation of the economic history of Canada and the ...
... followed cheap newsprint. In this reference to the problem of attack it will be clear that we have been concerned with the use of certain tools that have proved effective in the interpretation of the economic history of Canada and the ...
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... followed concen- tration and extension ofpower.A common ideal image ofwords spoken beyond the range of personal experience was imposed on dispersed communities and accepted by them. It has been claimed that an extended social structure ...
... followed concen- tration and extension ofpower.A common ideal image ofwords spoken beyond the range of personal experience was imposed on dispersed communities and accepted by them. It has been claimed that an extended social structure ...
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... followed the growth of astronomical knowledgeb by which the floods ofthe Nile could be predicted, notably a discovery of the sidereal year in which the rising of Sirius coincided with the period of floods. Moret has argued that as early ...
... followed the growth of astronomical knowledgeb by which the floods ofthe Nile could be predicted, notably a discovery of the sidereal year in which the rising of Sirius coincided with the period of floods. Moret has argued that as early ...
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... followed by the loss of the Syrian provinces. By the end of that dynasty in the twelfth century the royal heredity, which had lain in the queen,19 was included among the privileges of the family of the first prophet. On the death of ...
... followed by the loss of the Syrian provinces. By the end of that dynasty in the twelfth century the royal heredity, which had lain in the queen,19 was included among the privileges of the family of the first prophet. On the death of ...
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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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