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Communication in History : Technology, Culture, Society

by Crowley, David J.; Heyer, Paul

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9780801331336

ISBN10:

0801331331

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Pub. Date:

11/1/1998

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Pearson College Div

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Table of Contents

Preface

xi

PART I The Media of Early Civilization

1

(42)

1. The Art and Symbols of Ice Age Man

5

(10)

Alexander Marshack

2. The Earliest Precursor of Writing

15

(8)

Denise Schmandt-Besserat

3. Media in Ancient Empires

23

(7)

Harold Innis

4. Civilization Without Writing-The Incas and the Quipu

30

(6)

Marcia Ascher

Robert Ascher

5. The Origins of Writing

36

(7)

Andrew Robinson

PART II The Tradition of Western Literacy

43

(38)

6. The Consequences of Literacy

46

(8)

Jack Goody

Ian Watt

7. The Greek Legacy

54

(6)

Eric Havelock

8. Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media

60

(7)

Walter Ong

9. A Medieval Library

67

(3)

Umberto Eco

10. Communication in the Middle Ages

70

(11)

James Burke

PART III The Print Revolution

81

(50)

11. The Invention of Printing

85

(4)

Lewis Mumford

12. The Rise of the Reading Public

89

(8)

Elizabeth Eisenstein

13. Print, Space, and Closure

97

(11)

Walter Ong

14. Early Modern Literacies

108

(10)

Harvey J. Graff

15. The Trade in News

118

(5)

John B. Thompson

16. Files, Bureaucrats, and Intellectuals

123

(8)

Robert Darnton

PART IV Electricity Creates the Wired World

131

(40)

17. Time, Space, and the Telegraph

135

(6)

James Carey

18. The New Journalism

141

(8)

Michael Schudson

19. The Telephone Takes Command

149

(6)

Claude S. Fischer

20. Early Uses of the Telephone

155

(8)

Carolyn Marvin

21. Dream Worlds of Consumption

163

(8)

Rosalynd Williams

PART V Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society

171

(42)

22. On Photography

174

(4)

Susan Sontag

23. Early Photojournalism

178

(9)

Ulrich Keller

24. Early Motion Pictures

187

(8)

Daniel Czitrom

25. Mass Media and the Star System

195

(7)

Jib Fowles

26. The News Photograph

202

(4)

Vicki Goldberg

27. Advertising, Consumers, and Culture

206

(7)

William Leiss

Stephen Kline

Sut Jhally

PART VI Radio Days

213

(46)

28. Wireless World

217

(3)

Stephen Kern

29. Movies Talk

220

(6)

Scott Eyman

30. Broadcasting Begins

226

(9)

Susan J. Douglas

31. Documenting Media

235

(10)

Willian Stott

32. The Golden Age of Programming

245

(6)

Christopher Sterling

John M. Kittross

33. Understanding Radio

251

(8)

Marshall McLuhan

PART VII TV Times

259

(42)

34. The New Languages

262

(6)

Edmund Carpenter

35. Making Room for TV

268

(8)

Lynn Spigel

36. Television Transforms the News

276

(7)

Mitchell Stephens

37. Music Videos

283

(5)

Pat Aufderheide

38. Two Cultures-Television Versus Print

288

(13)

Neil Postman

Camille Paglia

PART VIII New Media and Old in the Information Age

301

(36)

39. The Control Revolution

305

(10)

James Beniger

40. Softcities

315

(7)

William J. Mitchell

41. Cyberdramas

322

(4)

Janet Murray

42. Virtual Reality

326

(5)

Derrick de Kerckhove

43. Proto-Internets and the Rise of a Computerate Class

331

(4)

Robert Logan

44. The Net as a Public Sphere

335

(2)

Mark Poster

Suggestions for Further Reading

337

(4)

Text Credits

341

(2)

Index

343

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