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7th Edition

Communication in History Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

Edited By Peter Urquhart, Paul Heyer Copyright 2019
    364 Pages
    by Routledge

    364 Pages
    by Routledge

    364 Pages
    by Routledge
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    Now in its 7th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Thirty-eight contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging students to build upon their own knowledge and skill sets. From stone-age symbols and early writing to the Internet and social media, readers are introduced to an expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication media.

    Table of Contents

    Forward

    Preface

    Part I The Media of Early Civilization

    1. The Earliest Precursor of Writing, Denise Schmandt-Besserat

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    2. Media in Ancient Empires, Harold Innis

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    3. Civilization Without Writing – The Incas and the Quipu, Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher

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    4. The Origin of Writing, Andrew Robinson

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      Part II The Tradition of Western Literacy

    5. The Greek Legacy, Eric Havelock

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    6. Writing and the Alphabet Effect, Robert K. Logan

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    7. Writing Restructures Consciousness, Walter Ong

    8. Communication and Faith in the Middle Ages, James Burke and Robert Ornstein

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      Part III The Print Revolution

    9. Paper and Block Printing – From China to Europe, Thomas F. Carter

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    10. The Invention of Printing, Lewis Mumford

      11.

    11. Early Modern Literacies, Harvey J. Graff

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    12. Sensationalism in Early Printed News, Mitchell Stephens

      13. Part IV Electricity Creates the Wired the World

    13. Time, Space and the Telegraph, James W. Carey

      14.

    14. The New Journalism, Michael Shudson

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    15. The Telephone Takes Command, Claude S. Fischer

      16.

    16. Dream Worlds of Consumption, Rosalynd Williams

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    17. Wireless World, Stephen Kern

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      Part V Image and Sound

    18. Early Photojournalism, Ulrich Keller

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    19. Inscribing Sound, Lisa Gittelman

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    20. The Making of the Phonograph, Jonathan Sterne

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    21. Early Motion Pictures, Daniel Czitrom

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    22. Movies Talk, Scott Eyman

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      Part VI Radio Days

    23. The Public Voice of Radio, John Durham Peters

    24. Early Radio, Susan J. Douglas

    25. The Golden Age of Programming, Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross

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    26. Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds Broadcast, Paul Heyer

    27. Radio Voices, Michelle Hilmes

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    28. Radio in the Television Age, Peter Fornatale and Joshua E. Mills

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      Part VII TV Times

    29. Television Begins, William Boddy

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    30. The New Languages, Edmund Carpenter

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    31. Making Room for TV, Lynn Spigel

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    32. From Turmoil to Tranquility in 1960s Television, Gary Edgarton

    33. Boob Tubes, Fans, and Addicts, Richard Butsch

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      Part VIII New Media and Old in The Digital Age

    34. How Media Became New, Lev Manovich

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    35. Popularizing the Internet, Janet Abbate

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    36. The World Wide Web, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
    37. A Cultural History of Web 2.0, Alice E. Marwick

    38. Social Media Retweets History, Tom Standage

    Discussion Questions

    Suggested Readings

    Biography

    Paul Heyer is Professor Emeritus in the Communication Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

    Peter Urquhart is Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

     This is an excellent selection of seminal work by key scholars in the field of communications history. Introductions to each section connect technological developments in communications to the social, cultural and economic structures within a particular historical period. Excerpts are well-chosen to offer students accessible scholarship from a variety of disciplines.

    -June M. Madeley, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada

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