Authors: David Crowley, Paul Heyer
ISBN-13: 9780205693092, ISBN-10: 0205693091
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
Date Published: March 2010
Edition: 6th Edition
Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change.
With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.
Part 1 - Media of Early Civilization
1. The Earliest Precursors of Writing, Schmandt-Besserat
2. Media in Ancient Empires, Innis
3. Civilization with Writing - The Incas and the Quipu, Ascher and Ascher
4. The Origins of Writing, Robinson
Part 2 - The Tradition of Western Literacy
5. The Greek Legacy, Havelock
6. Writing and the Alphabet Effect, Logan
7. Orality, Literacy and Modern Media, Ong
8. Communication and Faith in the Middle Ages, Burke and Ornstein
Part 3 - The Print Revolution
9. Paper and Block Printing – From China to Europe, Carter
10. The Invention of Printing, Mumford
11. Aspects of the Printing Revolution, Eisenstein
12. Early Modern Literacies, Graff
13. The Trade in News, Thompson
Part 4 - Electricity Creates the Wired World
14. Telegraphy – The Victorian Internet, Standage
15. The New Journalism, Schudson
16. The Telephone Takes Command, Fischer
17. Time, Space and the Telegraph, Carey
Part 5 - Image and Sound Technologies and the Emergence of Consumer Society
18. Dream Worlds of Consumption, Williams
19. Early Photojournalism, Keller
20. Inscribing Sound, Gitelman
21. The making of the Phonograph, Sterne
22. Early Motion Pictures, Czitrom
23. Movies Talk, Eyman
24. Mass Media and the Star System, Fowles
Part 6 - Radio Days
25. Wireless World, Kern
26. The Public Voice of Radio, Peters
27. Early Radio, Douglas
28. The Golden Age of Programming, Sterling and Kitross
29. Radio Voices, Hilmes
30. Radio in the Television Age, Fornatale and Mills
Part 7 - TV Times
31. Television Begins, Boddy
32. The New Languages, Carpenter
33. Making Room for TV, Spigel
34. Television Transforms the News, Stephens
35. Two Cultures - Television versus Print, Postman and Paglia
36. TV in the New-age, Jenkins
Part 8 - New Media and Old in the (Digital) Information Age
37. The Control Revolution, Beniger
38. How Media Became New, Manovich
39. Popularizing the Internet, Abbate
40. The World Wide Web, Bolter and Grusin
41. A Mobile Network Society, Castells, et al