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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... electric telegraph.36 Not until 1840 did an optical line connect two cities , New York and Philadelphia , to convey stock prices and lottery numbers . Built by the Philadel- phia stockbroker William Briggs , it was replaced five years ...
... electric telegraph.36 Not until 1840 did an optical line connect two cities , New York and Philadelphia , to convey stock prices and lottery numbers . Built by the Philadel- phia stockbroker William Briggs , it was replaced five years ...
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... electric line could , if needed , operate day and night . In other words , from the beginning , the electric telegraph could handle at least ten times more information than the optical telegraph could after half a century of improve ...
... electric line could , if needed , operate day and night . In other words , from the beginning , the electric telegraph could handle at least ten times more information than the optical telegraph could after half a century of improve ...
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... Electric Club in New York in 1887. His exception for telegraphy was not much of an exception , since telegraph opera- tors enjoyed scant occupational prestige compared with other electrical professionals . A number of trade and ...
... Electric Club in New York in 1887. His exception for telegraphy was not much of an exception , since telegraph opera- tors enjoyed scant occupational prestige compared with other electrical professionals . A number of trade and ...
Inhalt
The Media of Early Civilization | 1 |
The Tradition of Western Literacy | 41 |
The Print Revolution | 83 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society David Crowley,Paul Heyer Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |
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