ABSTRACT
Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |4 pages
Part I The Media of Early Civilization
part |3 pages
PART I I The Tradition of Western Literacy
part |4 pages
Part III The Print Revolution
part |4 pages
PART I V Electricity Creates the Wired World
part |4 pages
Part V Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society
part |4 pages
PART V I Radio Days
part |3 pages
Part VII TV Times
part |5 pages
Part VIII New Media and Old in the Information Age