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Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media book cover

8th Edition

Communication in History Stone Age Symbols to Social Media

Edited By Peter Urquhart, Paul Heyer Copyright 2024
300 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

300 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This updated eighth edition provides a thorough and engaging history of communication and media through a collection of essential, field-defining essays. The collection reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and enabling social change. Contributions from a wide range of voices offer instructors the opportunity to customize their courses while challenging... Read more

Preface

Part One: The Media of Early Civilization

1. The Earliest Precursor of Writing

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

2. Media in Ancient Empires

Harold Innis

3. Civilization Without Writing—The Incas and the Quipu

Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher

4. The Origins of Writing

Andrew Robinson

Part Two: The Tradition of Western Literacy

5. The Greek Legacy

Eric Havelock

6. Writing and the Alphabet Effect

Robert K. Logan

7. Writing Restructures Consciousness

Walter Ong

Part Three: The Print Revolution

8. Paper and Block Printing—From China to Europe

Thomas F. Carter

9. The Invention of Printing

Lewis Mumford

10. Early Modern Literacies

Harvey J. Graff

11. Sensationalism and News

Mitchell Stephens

Part Four: Electricity Creates the Wired World

12. Time, Space, and the Telegraph

James W. Carey

13. Anti-Lynching Imagery as Visual Protest in in the 1890s Black Press

Amanda Friskin

14. The Telephone Takes Command

Claude S. Fischer

15. Dream Worlds of Consumption

Rosalynd Williams

16. Wireless World

Stephen Kern

Part Five: Image and Sound

17. Visual Reportage I

Thierry Gervais

18. Visual Reportage II

Richard Meyer

19. Inscribing Sound

Lisa Gitelman

20. The Making of the Phonograph

Jonathan Sterne

21. Early Motion Pictures

Daniel Czitrom

Chapter 22 “Talkies” and Stardom

Michael Slowick

Part Six: Broadcasting

23. Early Radio

Susan J. Douglas

24. The Golden Age of Programming

Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross

25. Race on Radio

Barbara Savage

26. Television Begins

William Boddy

27. Making Room for TV

Lynn Spigel

28. From Turmoil to Tranquility

Gary Edgerton

Part Seven: New Media and Old in the Digital Age

29. How Media Became New

Lev Manovich

30. Popularizing the Internet

Janet Abbate

31. The World Wide Web

Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin

32. A Cultural History of Web 2.0

Alice E. Marwick

33. Social Media Retweets History

Tom Standage

34. How Algorithms Rule Online

Eiri Elvestad and Angela Phillips

Discussion Questions

Suggested Readings

Credits

Index

Biography

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

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

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