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A history of communications : media and society from the evolution of speech to the Internet /
"Communications and Humanity advances a new 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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Communications and Humanity advances a new 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"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 337 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511992896 0511992890 0511989105 9780511989100 9780511976919 0511976917 0511994095 9780511994098 1107220998 9781107220997 1283055457 9781283055451 9786613055453 661305545X 0511991886 9780511991882 0511987315 9780511987311 0511990898 9780511990892 |