Communication in history :  technology, culture, society
[edited by] David Crowley, Paul Heyer. -- 4th ed.
18286452
TABLE DES MATIÈRES

I. The Media of Early Civilization
     1. The Art and Symbols of Ice Age Man, Alexander Marshack
     2. The Evolution of Symbols in Prehistory, Denise Schmandt-Besserat
     3. The New Rosetta Stone, Richard Rudgley
     4. Media in Ancient Empires, Harold Innis
     5. Civilizations without Writing - the Incas and the Quipu, Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher
     6. The Origins of Writing, Andrew Robinson

II. The Tradition of Western Literacy
     7. The Alphabet, Johanna Drucker
     8. The Greek Legacy, Eric Havelock
     9. Writing and the Alphabetic Effect, Robert K. Logan
   10. Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media, Walter Ong
   11. A Medieval Library, Umberto Eco
   12. Communication in the Middle Ages, James Burke

III. The Print Revolution
    13. Paper and Block Printing—From China to Europe, T. F. Carter
    14. The Invention of Printing, Lewis Mumford
    15. The Rise of the Reading Public, Elizabeth Eisenstein
    16. Early Modern Literacies, Harvey J. Graff
    17. The Trade in News, John B. Thompson
    18. Files, Bureaucrats, and Intellectuals, Robert Darnton

IV. Electricity Creates the Wired World
    19. The Optical Telegraph, Daniel Headrick
    20. Telegraphy—The Victorian Internet, Tom Standage
    21. The New Journalism, Michael Schudson
    22. The Telephone Takes Command, Claude S. Fischer
    23. Inventing the Expert, Carolyn Marvin
    24. Time, Space, and the Telegraph, James Carey

V. Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society
    25. On Photography, Susan Sontag
    26. Early Photojournalism, Ulrich Keller
    27. Dream Worlds of Consumption, Rosalyn Williams
    28. Early Motion Pictures, Daniel Czitrom
    29. Mass Media and the Star System, Jib Fowles
    30. Advertising and the Idea of Mass Society, Jackson Lears

VI. Radio Days
    31. Wireless World, Stephen Kern
    32. Early Radio, Susan J. Douglas
    33. Movies Talk, Scott Eyman
    34. The Golden Age of Programming, Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross
    35. Radio and Race, Gerald Nachman
    36. Understanding Radio, Marshall McLuhan

VII. TV Times

    37. Television Begins, William Boddy
    38. The New Languages, Edmund Carpenter
    39. Making Room for TV, Lynn Spigel
    40. The Sixties Counterculture on TV, Aniko Bodroghkozy
    41. Television Transforms the News, Mitchell Stephens
    42. Two Cultures—Television versus Print, Neil Postman and Camille Paglia

VIII. New Media and Old in the Information Age

    43. The Control Revolution, James Beniger
    44. How Media Became New, Lev Manovich
    45. The Hypermedia Environment, Ronald J. Deibert
    46. Popularizing the Internet, Janet Abbate
    47. From Codex to Homepage, James J. O'Donnell
    48. A World Wide Web, Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin

Suggested Readings

2 novembre 2004