Screen LibraryA social history of the media : from Gutenberg to Facebook /
"The classic text for historians and media scholars, updated throughout and with a new chapter on social media and big data"--
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| Group Author: | ; |
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Polity Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, UK : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Summary: |
"The classic text for historians and media scholars, updated throughout and with a new chapter on social media and big data"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 384 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781509533718 1509533710 9781509533725 1509533729 |
| Index Number: | P90 |
| CLC: | G206.2-09 |
| Call Number: | G206.2-09/B854/4th ed. |
| Contents: |
Intro -- Front Matter -- Preface to the Fourth Edition -- 1 Introduction -- Communication in History, History in Communication -- Media of Communication before Print -- From Orality to Literacy and Secondary Orality -- Media in an Expanded Sense -- 2 Pr Clandestine Communication -- Print in Consumer Society -- Five Kinds of Reading -- The Print Revolution Revisited -- Propaganda -- Print Was Everywhere -- Journals and Newspapers -- 3 The Media and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Europe -- The Rise of From the Restoration to the 'Glorious Revolution' -- A Proliferation of Print -- Seventeenth-Century France -- Enlightenments -- The French Revolution -- After Revolution -- Conclusion -- 4 Technologies and Revolutions -- The Industrial Revolution -- In Radio -- Sound Recordings -- Photography -- Films -- Television -- Physical Communication -- 6 Information, Education, Entertainment -- Sport -- Newspapers -- The Popular Press -- Critics of the Press -- Journalists -- W.T. Stead and Arthur Evans -- The Debate Renewed -- Landmarks in Entertainment -- Education -- Information -- The Information Society -- Coexistence and Convergence -- 7 Media Convergences -- Computers -- Transistors -- Miniaturization -- Japan -- The PC -- Cornucopia -- Broadcasting -- |