1st Edition

The Handbook of Communication History

    528 Pages
    by Routledge

    528 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history.

    The volume examines the history of communication history; the history of ideas of communication; the history of communication media; and the history of the field of communication.  Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history.

    Series Editor’s Foreword
    Robert T. Craig

    Introduction
    Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T. Craig, and John P. Jackson, Jr.

    1. Field
    The History of Communication History. Peter Simonson, Janice Peck, Robert T. Craig, and John P. Jackson, Jr.
    Media. David Crowley and Paul Heyer
    Communication Research. Jefferson D. Pooley  and David W. Park

    2. Modes
    Audiences: Publics, Crowds, Mass. Richard Butsch
    Rhetoric in Cross-Cultural Perspectives.  C. Jan Swearingen
    Conversation.  Peter Burke
    Visual Communication.  Michael Griffin
    Communication in Music. Christian Kaden

    3. Media
    Print Culture.  Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino Zboray
    Journalism.  John Nerone
    Telecommunications.  Gabriele Balbi
    Radio Broadcasting.  Christopher H. Sterling
    Television. Andreas Fickers
    New Media. Benjamin Peters and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

    4. Society
     The City.  Juraj Kittler
    Science Communication. Joan Leach
    Politics. Josef Seethaler
    Labor. Nathan Godfried
    War. Mette Mortensen
    Gender and Media: A Very Short Herstory. Karen Ross
    Race.  Murali Balaji and Letrell D. Crittenden
    Organizing.  Karen Lee Ashcraft and Pushkala Prasad

    5. World 
    Rhetoric in Latin America. Susan Romano
    'Cultural Imperialism' Revisited: The Case of Broadcasting in Latin America, India, and China.  John Sinclair
    Communication in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southern Africa.  Donal P. McCracken and Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli
    Islam, Mediation and Technology.  Nabil Echchabi
    Jewish Media and Communication in the Modern Age. Gideon Kouts
    East Asian Communication Studies. Guo-Ming Chen,  Akira Miyahara, and Min-Sun Kim

    Epilogue: The Futures of Communication. Lucien Sfez

    Biography

    Peter Simonson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

    Janice Peck is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UC Boulder. 

    Robert T. Craig is Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder.

    John P. Jackson, Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder.

    "The Handbook of Communication History is an important contribution to valuing ideas, social practices and media communication as they have developed over time, past cultures and the history of world geographical regions. The comparative aspects of many of the chapters also add genuine value to the editorial aim of shifting our gaze not only into history but across national and international borders and is highly commendable."

    - Simon Cross, Nottingham Trent University, UK, in European Journal of Communication

    "This book is a unique collection of research on a critical part of the communication field. It suggests that unless we become more reflexive on what research we are doing, the field will continue to grow without direction... I recommend the book for all researchers in the field."

    - Emile McAnany, Santa Clara University, Communication Research Trends