Empire and Communications (Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture) - Couverture souple

Innis, Harold A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0742555089 ISBN 13 : 9780742555082

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007

Synopsis

It's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. With a new introduction by Alexander John Watson, author of Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis, and a new foreword by series editor Andrew Calabrese, this previously hard-to-obtain book is now readily available again. All communication scholars should have this classic book on their shelves, and it also serves as a great supplementary text in communication and economics courses.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Harold A. Innis was a distinguished political economist who was one of the first to study the history of communication; he also served as a dean at the University of Toronto. In addition to Empire and Communications, his other influential communication works include The Bias of Communication and Changing Concepts of Time. Innis died in Toronto in 1952.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742555089
• ISBN 13: 9780742555082
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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