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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... tion of two cultural constellations — that of the indigenous peoples and that of the European settlers. It was a remarkable col- lective achievement carried out in the two decades of the inter- war period when Canada was coming of age ...
... tion of two cultural constellations — that of the indigenous peoples and that of the European settlers. It was a remarkable col- lective achievement carried out in the two decades of the inter- war period when Canada was coming of age ...
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... ,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 specialist scholars by staying 16 HAROLD A. INNIS.
... ,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 specialist scholars by staying 16 HAROLD A. INNIS.
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... tion was still applicable universally,“it is, when not duly guarded against, an almost irresistible tendency of the human mind to become the slave of its own hypothe- ses; and when it has once habituated itself to reason, feel, and ...
... tion was still applicable universally,“it is, when not duly guarded against, an almost irresistible tendency of the human mind to become the slave of its own hypothe- ses; and when it has once habituated itself to reason, feel, and ...
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... tion on bulk products the character of which has been deter- mined by the culture of the aborigines and by the effectiveness of navigation by lake, river, and ocean to Europe.a Along the north Atlantic coast the cod fisheries were ...
... tion on bulk products the character of which has been deter- mined by the culture of the aborigines and by the effectiveness of navigation by lake, river, and ocean to Europe.a Along the north Atlantic coast the cod fisheries were ...
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... tion. Students of linguistics have suggested that the spoken word was in its origins a half-way house between singing and speech, an outlet for intense feelings rather than intelligible expression.10 Used by an individual, it was in ...
... tion. Students of linguistics have suggested that the spoken word was in its origins a half-way house between singing and speech, an outlet for intense feelings rather than intelligible expression.10 Used by an individual, it was in ...
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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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