Empire and CommunicationsIt's been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influenced the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. With a new introduction by Alexander John Watson, author of Marginal Man: The Dark Vision of Harold Innis, and a new foreword by series editor Andrew Calabrese, this previously hard-to-obtain book is now readily available again. All communication scholars should have this classic book on their shelves, and it also serves as a great supplementary text in communication and economics courses. |
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User Review - DinadansFriend - LibraryThingThe style is a little dry, but Dr. Innis makes an interesting connection between the script, the method of writing(Hieroglyph, Cuneiform, alphabet) and the form of an Empire created in the past. A ... Read full review
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| Title | Empire and Communications Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture Critical media studies |
| Author | Harold Adams Innis |
| Editor | Andrew Calabrese |
| Contributors | Andrew Calabrese, Alexander John Watson |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield, 2007 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0742555089, 9780742555082 |
| Length | 287 pages |
| Subjects | › History / World Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies Social Science / Media Studies |
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