A Social History of the Media
Subtitle: From Gutenberg to the Internet
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: December 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780745623757
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Media Studies; Media, information & communication industries; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; History: World; Social Science; Social aspects; Sociology; General; History; Mass media
First sentence: It was only in the 1920s - according to the Oxford English Dictionary - that people began to speak of 'the media', and a generation later, in the 1950s, of a 'communication revolution', but a concern with the means of communication is very much older than that.