Communication in history
Subtitle: technology, culture, society
By: [edited by] David Crowley, Paul Heyer.
Contributors: Crowley, D. J. 1945-; Heyer, Paul, 1946-
Edition: 6th ed.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; Pearson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780205693092
Subjects: Communication -- History; Mass media -- History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Media of early civilization. The earliest precursors of writing / Denise Schmandt-Besserat; title: Media in ancient civilization / Harold Innis; title: Civilization without writing : the Incas and the Quipu / Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher; title: The origins of writing / Andrew Robinson; title: The tradition of Western literacy. The Greek legacy / Eric Havelock; title: Writing and the alphabet effect / Robert K. Logan; title: Orality, literacy and modern media / Walter Ong; title: Communication and faith in the Middle Ages / James Burke and Robert Ornstein; title: The print revolution. Paper and block printing : from China to Europe / Thomas F. Carter; title: The invention of printing / Lewis Mumford; title: Aspects of the printing revolution / Elizabeth Eisenstein; title: Early modern literacies / Harvey J. Graff; title: The trade in news / John B. Thompson; title: Electricity creates the wired world. Telegraphy : the Victorian Internet / Tom Standage; title: The new journalism / Michael Schudson; title: The telephone takes command / Claude S. Fisher; title: Time, space and the telegraph / James W. Carey; title: Image and sound technologies and the emergence of consumer society. Dream worlds of consumption / Rosalynd Williams; title: Early photojournalism / Ulrich Keller; title: Inscribing sound / Lisa Gitelman; title: The making of the phonograph / Jonathan Sterne; title: Early motion pictures / Daniel Czitrom; title: Movies talk / Scott Eyman; title: Mass media and the star system / Jib Fowles; title: Radio days. Wireless world / Stephen Kern; title: The public voice of radio / John Durham Peters; title: Early radio / Susan J. Douglas; title: The golden age of programming / Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross; title: Radio voices / Michele Hilmes; title: Radio in the television age / Peter Fornatale and Joshua E. Mills; title: TV times. Television begins / William Boddy; title: The new languages / Edmund Carpenter; title: Making room for TV / Lynn Spigel; title: Television transforms the news / Mitchell Stephens; title: Two cultures : television versus print / Neil Postman and Camille Paglia; title: TV in the net-age / Henry Jenkins; title: New media and old in the (digital) information age. The control revolution / James Beniger; title: How media became new / Lev Manovich; title: Popularizing the Internet / Janet Abbate; title: The World Wide Web / Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin; title: A mobile network society / Manuel Castells, [et al.].