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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      06 December 2010
      ISBN:
      9780511976919
      9781107004351
      9780521179447
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511976919
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.68kg, 350 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 352 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
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    Subjects:
    Regional and World History: General Interest, History, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Media, Mass Communication
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    A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

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    ‘Based on a truly impressive range (as well as amount) of reading, arguing an original and convincing thesis, and written in a lucid and engaging style, this book deserves to reach a wide audience of students and scholars alike.’

    Peter Burke - University of Cambridge

    ‘The ambition and sweep of Marshall Poe’s analysis of media make it different from anything else I have read on the topic. Many modern ‘consumers’ of media, in all its forms, have a vague sense that technological advances are altering their sense of the world in ways they can’t fully appreciate in real time. Poe’s book is a big advance in helping citizens understand the opportunities and problems the new media landscape offers.’

    James Fallows Source: The Atlantic

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