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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... papyrus, second to that dominated by parchment, and third to that dominated by paper.The effective government of large areas depends to a very important extent on the efficiency of communication. The concepts of time and space reflect ...
... papyrus, second to that dominated by parchment, and third to that dominated by paper.The effective government of large areas depends to a very important extent on the efficiency of communication. The concepts of time and space reflect ...
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... papyrus, which became the basis of a large administration empire. Materials that emphasize time favour decentralization and hier- archical types of institutions, while those that emphasize space favour centralization and systems of ...
... papyrus, which became the basis of a large administration empire. Materials that emphasize time favour decentralization and hier- archical types of institutions, while those that emphasize space favour centralization and systems of ...
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... Papyrus has practically disappeared, whereas clay and stone have remained largely intact, but clay and stone as permanent material are used for limited purposes and studies of the periods in which they predominate will be influenced by ...
... Papyrus has practically disappeared, whereas clay and stone have remained largely intact, but clay and stone as permanent material are used for limited purposes and studies of the periods in which they predominate will be influenced by ...
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... papyrus.e Papyrus sheets dated from the first dynasty and inscribed sheets from the fifth dynasty (2680–2540 bc or 2750–2625 bc). In contrast with stone,papyrus as a writing medium was extremely light. It was made from a plant (Cyperus ...
... papyrus.e Papyrus sheets dated from the first dynasty and inscribed sheets from the fifth dynasty (2680–2540 bc or 2750–2625 bc). In contrast with stone,papyrus as a writing medium was extremely light. It was made from a plant (Cyperus ...
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... papyrus permitted cursive forms suited to rapid writing.“When hieroglyphs were chiselled on stone mon- uments they were very carefully formed and decorative in char- acter.When written on wood or papyrus they became simpler and more ...
... papyrus permitted cursive forms suited to rapid writing.“When hieroglyphs were chiselled on stone mon- uments they were very carefully formed and decorative in char- acter.When written on wood or papyrus they became simpler and more ...
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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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