Revolutions in communication : media history from Gutenberg to the digital age
The rise of the Information Age, the fall of the traditional media, and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. We need to understand these revolutions because they influence our present and future as m...
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New York :
Continuum ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The printing revolution, 1455 to 1814
- 2. The commercial and industrial media revolution, 1814-1900
- 3. Print media in the 20th and 21st centuries
- 4. Photography : giving vision to history
- 5. Motion pictures, dream factories, and popcorn palaces
- 6. Advertising, public relations, and the crafted image
- 7. The first electronic revolution : telegraph and telephone
- 8. Radio : the electronic hearth
- 9. Television : a new window on the world
- 10. The advent of computers
- 11. Networks
- 12. Global digital media culture