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.

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

chapter 19|8 pages

Early Photojournalism, Ulrich Keller

chapter 20|5 pages

Inscribing Sound, Lisa Gitelman

chapter 22|8 pages

Early Motion Pictures, Daniel Czitrom

chapter 23|6 pages

Movies Talk, Scott Eyman

chapter 24|8 pages

Mass Media and the Star System, Jib Fowles

part |4 pages

PART V I Radio Days

part |3 pages

Part VII TV Times

chapter 31|9 pages

Television Begins, William Boddy

chapter 32|6 pages

The New Languages, Edmund Carpenter

chapter 33|8 pages

Making Room for TV, Lynn Spigel

chapter 36|10 pages

TV in the Net-age, Henry Jenkins

part |5 pages

Part VIII New Media and Old in the Information Age