A History of Communications : Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet / Marshall T. Poe.

By:

Poe, Marshall T [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: 1 online resource (352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511976919 (ebook)

Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:

302.209 22

LOC classification:

HM1206 .P64 2011

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Summary: A History of Communications advances a 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.

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A History of Communications advances a 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.

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