A Social History of the Media
Subtitle: From Gutenberg to the Internet
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: February 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780745623740
Subjects: Cultural studies; History of specific subjects; Media Studies; Media, information & communication industries; History Of Mass Communication; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Sociology; Social aspects; Mass Media - General; History; General; 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.