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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... Innis, Empire and Communications. Shortly. after the end of World War ii, Harold Innis (1894–1952), whose reputation was founded on his work on the development of Canada, was invited to give the prestigious Beit Lectures on Imperial ...
... Innis, Empire and Communications. Shortly. after the end of World War ii, Harold Innis (1894–1952), whose reputation was founded on his work on the development of Canada, was invited to give the prestigious Beit Lectures on Imperial ...
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... Innis's view, the margin, not the centre, was the cornerstone for the renewal of Western civilization. He lived his life accompanied by the ghosts of so many of the bright minds that did not return from the conflict.This outlook, in ...
... Innis's view, the margin, not the centre, was the cornerstone for the renewal of Western civilization. He lived his life accompanied by the ghosts of so many of the bright minds that did not return from the conflict.This outlook, in ...
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... Innis's The Fur Trade in Canada still represents the most concentrated and profound single piece of writing for anyone seeking to understand the nature of Canada. But Innis's intellectual goal was never so parochial. He had always ...
... Innis's The Fur Trade in Canada still represents the most concentrated and profound single piece of writing for anyone seeking to understand the nature of Canada. But Innis's intellectual goal was never so parochial. He had always ...
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... Innis made an intellectual leap to examine imperial history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhausting and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of ...
... Innis made an intellectual leap to examine imperial history using the characteristics of media as the staples of empire. For his final decade, Innis embarked on an exhausting and lonely analysis of historical empires and the mix of ...
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... Innis's work. Ironically, the first was the fragmentation of academic disciplines into specialized areas — a trend about which Innis himself forewarned.With communications studies now being pursued as a discrete discipline, scholars ...
... Innis's work. Ironically, the first was the fragmentation of academic disciplines into specialized areas — a trend about which Innis himself forewarned.With communications studies now being pursued as a discrete discipline, scholars ...
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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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