Communication in History: Technology, Culture, SocietyAllyn and Bacon, 2003 - 331 Seiten Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field.Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Revised with new readings for the Fourth Edition, Communication in History continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces the reader to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history."For anyone interested in media history, history of communication, the relationship of the media and society. |
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... Claude Chappe ( 1763-1805 ) devised a way to send any message whatsoever , in either direction , much faster than any horse could gallop . That , and not the technical means ( elec- tricity , radio waves , fiber optics , or any other ) ...
... Claude Chappe ( 1763-1805 ) devised a way to send any message whatsoever , in either direction , much faster than any horse could gallop . That , and not the technical means ( elec- tricity , radio waves , fiber optics , or any other ) ...
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Technology, Culture, Society David J. Crowley, Paul Heyer. Claude Chappe was a persistent man.12 Starting in 1790 , he tried several methods of communicating at a distance . He experimented with electricity . He tried using gongs and ...
Technology, Culture, Society David J. Crowley, Paul Heyer. Claude Chappe was a persistent man.12 Starting in 1790 , he tried several methods of communicating at a distance . He experimented with electricity . He tried using gongs and ...
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... Claude Chappe has been a hero in France for two hundred years , his telegraph has only re- cently begun to interest scholars in other countries . See , in particular , Alexander J. Field , " French Opti- cal Telegraphy , 1793-1855 ...
... Claude Chappe has been a hero in France for two hundred years , his telegraph has only re- cently begun to interest scholars in other countries . See , in particular , Alexander J. Field , " French Opti- cal Telegraphy , 1793-1855 ...
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The Media of Early Civilization | 1 |
The Tradition of Western Literacy | 42 |
The Print Revolution | 83 |
Urheberrecht | |
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