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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... script was preserved for expensive monuments . In central Syria Egyptian influence was more important and by about 900 BC Hittite script was not far from the Phoenician in that it was partly in alphabetic form . With the script of the ...
... script was preserved for expensive monuments . In central Syria Egyptian influence was more important and by about 900 BC Hittite script was not far from the Phoenician in that it was partly in alphabetic form . With the script of the ...
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... script of the Near East , the diplomatic script of the Persian empire , and the official script for the western provinces of Persia . By about 400 BC it succeeded Hebrew as a spoken language . The discovery of cuneiform texts20 at Ras ...
... script of the Near East , the diplomatic script of the Persian empire , and the official script for the western provinces of Persia . By about 400 BC it succeeded Hebrew as a spoken language . The discovery of cuneiform texts20 at Ras ...
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... script and extensive use of a system of abbreviation . It was followed by English script proba- bly in the seventh century which was " less bizarre , clearer and less crowded " ( Lowe ) . Both English and Irish scripts spread to the ...
... script and extensive use of a system of abbreviation . It was followed by English script proba- bly in the seventh century which was " less bizarre , clearer and less crowded " ( Lowe ) . Both English and Irish scripts spread to the ...
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