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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... produce the final text represented by the present book,Empire and Communications. By adopting this methodology, Innis increased his publica- tion productivity tremendously and, he thought, kept himself less exposed to the attacks of ...
... produce the final text represented by the present book,Empire and Communications. By adopting this methodology, Innis increased his publica- tion productivity tremendously and, he thought, kept himself less exposed to the attacks of ...
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... production of the ideas he was for- mulating. In many ways, he was anticipating the possibilities that the Internet, word-processing software, and search engines would bring into being only two generations after his death. But, overall ...
... production of the ideas he was for- mulating. In many ways, he was anticipating the possibilities that the Internet, word-processing software, and search engines would bring into being only two generations after his death. But, overall ...
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... production of staples for export to more highly industrialized areas in Europe and later in the United States had broad implications for the Canadian economic, polit- ical, and social structure. Each staple in its turn left its stamp ...
... production of staples for export to more highly industrialized areas in Europe and later in the United States had broad implications for the Canadian economic, polit- ical, and social structure. Each staple in its turn left its stamp ...
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... production on English agriculture, the impact on Russia of the revolution, and of pulp and paper production on public opinion in Anglo-Saxon countries.The effects of the organization and production on a large scale of staple raw ...
... production on English agriculture, the impact on Russia of the revolution, and of pulp and paper production on public opinion in Anglo-Saxon countries.The effects of the organization and production on a large scale of staple raw ...
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... production by thought and utterance. The spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words ...
... production by thought and utterance. The spoken word possessed creative efficiency and the written word in the tomb perpetuated it.3 The magical formulae of the pyramids assumed the productive and creative power of certain spoken words ...
Inhalt
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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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