Revolutions in communication
Subtitle: media history from Gutenberg to the digital age
By: Bill Kovarik
Edition: 2nd edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781628924787
Subjects: Communication; Mass media; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The printing revolution; title: The divine art; title: The commercial and industrial media revolution: from 1814 to 1900; title: Print media in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; title: The visual revolution; title: Photography: giving vision to hisotry; title: Cinema; title: Advertising, public relations and the crafted image; title: The electronic revolution: from "national neighborhoods" to the global village; title: The first electronic revolution: telegraph and telephone; title: The new world of radio; title: Television: a new window on the world; title: The digital revolution; title: Computers; title: Digital networks; title: Global culture.