ISBN:
9781509533749
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (220 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
Edition:
Fourth edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Briggs, Asa, 1921 - 2016 A social history of the media
DDC:
302.2309
Keywords:
Mass media History
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Mass media Social aspects
;
Mass media Economic aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
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Massenmedien
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Massenkommunikation
;
Soziologie
Abstract:
he first three editions of this bestselling book have established A Social History of the Media as a classic, providing a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. This fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout to reflect the latest developments in the field. Additionally, an expanded introduction explores the wide range of secondary literature and theory that inform the study of media history today, and a new eighth chapter surveys the revolutionary media developments of the twenty-first century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the penetration of these technologies into every sphere of social and private life. Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. In an age of fast-paced media developments, a thorough understanding of media history is more important than ever, and this text will continue to be the first choice for students and scholars across the world.
Abstract:
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 Printing in Its Contexts -- The Spread of Print -- The Effects of Print -- An Unacknowledged Revolution? -- Physical Communication -- The Speed of Communication -- Oral Communication -- Contexts of Literacy -- Languages of Communication -- Visual Communication -- Multimedia Communication -- The Survival of the Manuscript -- Censorship -- 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 the Public Sphere -- Politics in Florence -- Five Clusters of Events -- The Reformation -- The Sorcerer's Apprentice -- Books and Pamphlets -- Other Media -- The Conservative Dilemma -- Significance of the Reformation -- The Wars of Religion -- Iconoclasm -- The French Wars of Religion -- The Revolt of the Netherlands -- The English Civil War -- 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 -- Invention -- From Canals to Railways -- Gas -- Bacon's Dream -- Critics of Industrialization -- The Dismal Science -- Democracy -- Class -- The Steam Press -- Books and Periodicals -- Exhibitions -- Electricity -- 5 New Processes and Patterns -- Railways -- Steamships -- Postal Communication -- Telegraphy -- Regulating Communications -- The Telephone -- Radio -- Sound Recordings -- Photography -- Films -- Television.
Abstract:
"The classic text for historians and media scholars, updated throughout and with a new chapter on social media and big data"--
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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