Empire and CommunicationsDundurn, 2007 - 287 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. |
Inhalt
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Egypt | 46 |
4 The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
6 Parchment and Paper | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 212 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 27 - It is idle to think that, by means of words, any real communication can ever pass from one man to another.
Seite 12 - He underwent a multilevel crisis towards the end of the Great Depression and the beginning of World War n that launched him on the second half of his intellectual journey.
Verweise auf dieses Buch
Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age Anthony Giddens Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1991 |