A History of Communications: Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet
ISBN: 9781107004351 | 1107004357
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 12/31/2010
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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.
| Introduction: media causes and effects | |
| Homo loquens: humanity in the age of speech and memory | |
| Homo scriptor: humanity in the age of manuscripts | |
| Homo lector: humanity in the age of print | |
| Homo videns: humanity in the age of the audio-visual media | |
| Homo somnians: humanity in the age of Internet | |
| Conclusion: the media and human well-being | |
| Table of Contents ... MORE |
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