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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... history of Canada and the British Empire. It may seem irreverent to use these tools in a study of public opinion and to suggest that the changing character of the British Empire during the present century has been in part a result of ...
... history of Canada and the British Empire. It may seem irreverent to use these tools in a study of public opinion and to suggest that the changing character of the British Empire during the present century has been in part a result of ...
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... history of the ancient nations shows us, not only an enormous number of petty monarchies and republics swallowed up in the Empire of Rome, but that empire itself far more highly centralized than any preceding one had been.When the Roman ...
... history of the ancient nations shows us, not only an enormous number of petty monarchies and republics swallowed up in the Empire of Rome, but that empire itself far more highly centralized than any preceding one had been.When the Roman ...
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... history of the West into the writing and the printing periods. In the writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll in the Egyptian and in the Graeco-Roman world ...
... history of the West into the writing and the printing periods. In the writing period we can note the importance of various media such as the clay tablet of Mesopotamia, the papyrus roll in the Egyptian and in the Graeco-Roman world ...
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... history of language when looked at from the purely grammatical point of view is little other than the history of corruptions” (Lounsbury).12 Herbert Spencer wrote that “language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the ...
... history of language when looked at from the purely grammatical point of view is little other than the history of corruptions” (Lounsbury).12 Herbert Spencer wrote that “language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the ...
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... history in which as a result of the character of the material much is preserved when little is written and little is preserved when much is written. Papyrus has practically disappeared, whereas clay and stone have remained largely ...
... history in which as a result of the character of the material much is preserved when little is written and little is preserved when much is written. Papyrus has practically disappeared, whereas clay and stone have remained largely ...
Inhalt
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The Oral Tradition and Greek Civilization | 75 |
The Written Tradition and the Roman Empire | 106 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 138 |
Paper and the Printing Press | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Marginalia | 220 |
Suggested Reading | 270 |
Index | 274 |
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