Title A History of Communications : Media and Society from the Evolution of Speech to the Internet

Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (351 pages) Contents COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; TABLES AND CHARTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: MEDIA CAUSES AND MEDIA EFFECTS; 1 HOMO LOQUENS: Humanity in the Age of Speech; 2 HOMO SCRIPTOR: Humanity in the Age of Manuscripts; 3 HOMO LECTOR: Humanity in the Age of Print; 4 HOMO VIDENS: Humanity in the Age of Audiovisual Media; 5 HOMO SOMNIANS: Humanity in the Age of the Internet; CONCLUSION: THE MEDIA AND HUMAN WELL-BEING; NOTES; INDEX Summary Communications and Humanity advances a new theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication on human history Notes Print version record SUBJECT Atarazanas Valencia gnd Subject Communication -- Social aspects. Digital media -- Social aspects Communication -- Social aspects Digital media -- Social aspects Medien Geschichte Kommunikation Communicatiemiddelen. Sociale aspecten. Internet. Communicatie. Filosofische aspecten. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511990892 0511990898 1283055457 9781283055451 9781107004351 1107004357 9780511976919 0511976917 9780521179447 0521179440

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