Harold Innis's History of Communications

Paper and Printing-Antiquity to Early Modernity
Herausgeber: Buxton, William J.; Heyer, Paul; Cheney, Michael R.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Exploring how social order changes as the means of communication change, this volume makes widely accessible, for the first time, three extant chapters from Harold Innis's History of Communications-a legendary manuscript known of by many media historians, but seen by very few.

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Produktdetails

• Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9781442243385
• ISBN-10: 1442243384
• Artikelnr.: 41374138

Autorenporträt

William J. Buxton is professor of communication studies at Concordia University in Montreal; his numerous publications include Talcott Parsons and the Capitalist Nation-State, Harold Innis in the New Century, and Harold Innis and the North. Michael R. Cheney is professor of communication and associate professor of economics at the University of Illinois Springfield. He served as inaugural editor for the Journal of Media Sociology and publishes on politics, culture, and technology. Paul Heyer is professor of communication studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. His publications include Communication and History, Titanic Century, and Harold Innis.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by John Durham Peters Acknowledgments Introduction by William J. Buxton, Michael R. Cheney, and Paul Heyer 1
The Coming of Paper 2
Printing in the 15th Century 3
Printing in the 16th Century Bibliography Index About the Editors