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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... record keeper . The Sumerian scribe lived in the southern part of what today is called Iraq , between , say 2700 and 1700 B.C.E. The clay he used came from the banks of rivers . He kneaded it into a tablet that varied in size from a ...
... record keeper . The Sumerian scribe lived in the southern part of what today is called Iraq , between , say 2700 and 1700 B.C.E. The clay he used came from the banks of rivers . He kneaded it into a tablet that varied in size from a ...
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... recording . Confronted with a quipu , it is not easy to grasp immediately , if at all , the com- plex use of colors ... Recording in papyrus or clay involved filling the space in a more or less continuous process either up or down , or ...
... recording . Confronted with a quipu , it is not easy to grasp immediately , if at all , the com- plex use of colors ... Recording in papyrus or clay involved filling the space in a more or less continuous process either up or down , or ...
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... record of cultural history and ideas which in- terweave the domains of philosophy and religion , mysticism and magic , linguistics and humanistic inquiry . The investigation of alphabet symbolism forms the central focus of this study ...
... record of cultural history and ideas which in- terweave the domains of philosophy and religion , mysticism and magic , linguistics and humanistic inquiry . The investigation of alphabet symbolism forms the central focus of this study ...
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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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Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society David Crowley,Paul Heyer Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2002 |
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