Communication in history : technology, culture, society /: technology, culture, society. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: [edited by] David Crowley, Paul Heyer.
• Editors: Crowley, D. J (David J.), 1945-; Heyer, Paul, 1946-
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part I The Media of Early Civilization; 1. The Earliest Precursor of Writing; 2. Media in Ancient Empires; 3. Civilization without Writing-The Incas and the Quipu; 4. The Origins of Writing; Part II The Tradition of Western Literacy; 5. The Greek Legacy; 6. Writing and the Alphabet Effect; 7. Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media; 8. Communication and Faith in the Middle Ages; Part III The Print Revolution; 9. Paper and Block Printing-From China to Europe; 10. The Invention of Printing 11. Aspects of the Printing Revolution12. Early Modern Literacies; 13. The Trade in News; Part IV Electricity Creates the Wired World; 14. Telegraphy-The Victorian Internet; 15. The New Journalism; 16. The Telephone Takes Command; 17. Time, Space, and the Telegraph; Part V Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society; 18. Dream Worlds of Consumption; 19. Early Photojournalism; 20. Inscribing Sound; 21. The Making of the Phonograph; 22. Early Motion Pictures; 23. Movies Talk; 24. Mass Media and the Star System; Part VI Radio Days; 25. Wireless World; 26. The Public Voice of Radio 27. Early Radio28. The Golden Age of Programming; 29. Radio Voices; 30. Radio in the Television Age; Part VII TV Times; 31. Television Begins; 32. The New Languages; 33. Making Room for TV; 34. Television Transforms the News; 35. Two Cultures-Television versus Print; 36. TV in the Net-age; Part VIII New Media and Old in the Information Age; 37. The Control Revolution; 38. How Media Became New; 39. Popularizing the Internet; 40. The World Wide Web; 41. A Mobile Network Society; Suggested Readings; Credits; Index
• Edition: Sixth edition
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 302.209; Communication -- History; Mass media -- History; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology; Communication; Mass media; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781317349396; 1317349393
• Related ISBNs: 9780205693092; 0205693091
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 5, 2015).
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.