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A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet
ISBN: 9780521179447 | 0521179440
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 12/6/2010
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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, allowing us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.
| Tables and Charts | p. vii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction: Media Causes and Media Effects | p. 1 |
| Homo loquens: Humanity in the Age of Speech | p. 26 |
| Homo scriptor: Humanity in the Age of Manuscripts | p. 61 |
| Homo lector: Humanity in the Age of Print | p. 101 |
| Homo videns: Humanity in the Age of Audiovisual Media | p. 152 |
| Homo som... MORE | p. 202 |
| Conclusion: The Media and Human Well-Being | p. 251 |
| Notes | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 325 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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).
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