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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... writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll ... writers with a professional tendency to magnify their office have always been given to exaggerate the effect of ...
... writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll ... writers with a professional tendency to magnify their office have always been given to exaggerate the effect of ...
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... writing, music played its role in emphasizing rhythm and metre, which eased the task of mem- ory. Poetry is significant as a tribute to the oral tradition. Sapir has noted that “many primitive languages have a formal richness; a latent ...
... writing, music played its role in emphasizing rhythm and metre, which eased the task of mem- ory. Poetry is significant as a tribute to the oral tradition. Sapir has noted that “many primitive languages have a formal richness; a latent ...
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... writing and on its significance to the history of civilization, but in the main studies have been restricted to narrow fields or to broad generalizations. Becker16 has stated that the art of writing 29 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
... writing and on its significance to the history of civilization, but in the main studies have been restricted to narrow fields or to broad generalizations. Becker16 has stated that the art of writing 29 EMPIRE AND COMMUNICATIONS.
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... Writing enormously enhanced a capacity for abstract thinking which had been evident in the growth oflanguage in the oral tradition. Names in themselves were abstractions. Man's activities and powers were roughly extended in proportion ...
... Writing enormously enhanced a capacity for abstract thinking which had been evident in the growth oflanguage in the oral tradition. Names in themselves were abstractions. Man's activities and powers were roughly extended in proportion ...
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... writing, the special form of height- ened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collec- tive society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from ...
... writing, the special form of height- ened language, characteristic of the oral tradition and a collec- tive society, gave way to private writing. Records and messages displaced the collective memory. Poetry was written and detached from ...
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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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