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9780521179447

A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet

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    9780521179447

  • ISBN10:

    0521179440

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-12-06
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Communications and Humanity advances a new theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices, and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are "pulled" into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, "push" social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

Author Biography

Marshall T. Poe, Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa, is the author or editor of several books, including A People Born to Slavery: Russia in Early Modern European Ethnography (2000), The Russian Elite in the Seventeenth Century (2004), and The Russian Moment in World History (2006). He is the cofounder and editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History and founder and host of "New Books in History" (http://newbooksinhistory.com), as well as a former writer and editor for The Atlantic Monthly. Professor Poe has been a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton University), the Harriman Institute (Columbia University), and the Kennan Institute (Washington, DC).

Table of Contents

Tables and Chartsp. vii
Prefacep. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Introduction: Media Causes and Media Effectsp. 1
Homo loquens: Humanity in the Age of Speechp. 26
Homo scriptor: Humanity in the Age of Manuscriptsp. 61
Homo lector: Humanity in the Age of Printp. 101
Homo videns: Humanity in the Age of Audiovisual Mediap. 152
Homo somnians: Humanity in the Age of the Internetp. 202
Conclusion: The Media and Human Well-Beingp. 251
Notesp. 277
Indexp. 325
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