Alphabet to Internet

by Fang, Irving

• ISBN13: 9781933011905
• ISBN10: 1933011904
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Rada Pr Inc

Summary

"Alphabet to Internet: Mediated Communication in Our Lives," a survey history of our media of communication, considers how all of us are affected by the means we have devised for recording and communicating information. From the start of writing things down, mediated communication has nudged our world onward, again and again. It has changed the way we choose to live.Beginning with the evolution of writing and the alphabet from Sumer to Greece, Alphabet to Internet traces in a brisk and lively style the development and the impact of printing, still and motion photography, mail service, the telegraph, the telephone, recording, broadcasting, the Internet, and the digital revolution. An additional chapter reflects on the role of communication in current international political struggles. Another chapter is devoted to the cultural influence of video games. A supplementary section, ?A Timeline of Communication and Culture,? contains more than 5,000 entries. It is the most complete and up-to-date of its subject matter in existence.

Author Biography

Irving Fang is professor emeritus of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Minnesota. A former journalist at ABC News and Reuters, as well as several newspapers, he has also taught and lectured in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Most of Dr. Fang's books, including more than a dozen for younger readers, have been about communication history or communication skills.