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~ David Crowley (Author), Paul Heyer (Author)
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Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field. Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Revised with new readings for the Fourth Edition, Communication in History continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces the reader to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history." For anyone interested in media history, history of communication, the relationship of the media and society.

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Communication in History's outstanding selection of readings from classic and contemporary sources gives an extensive overview of the most important ideas in the field. Encompassing topics as wide-ranging as the role of printing in the rise of the modern state and the role of the Internet in the Information Age, this anthology reveals how media have been influential both in maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. Revised with new readings for the Fourth Edition, Communication in History continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces the reader to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history." For anyone interested in media history, history of communication, the relationship of the media and society.

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Allyn & Bacon; 4 edition (September 26, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0321088050
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321088055
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #766,129 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Largely unchanged from previous version, September 13, 2008
By Christopher Ridgeway (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society (5th Edition) (Paperback)
This 2007 edition has some changes from the 2003 edition (link:Communication in History: Technology, Culture, and Society (4th Edition)), but at a price difference of almost $100, I'd go with the earlier edition, which is still excellent.

Here's a list of the exact changes, by each of the major sections (which have not changed):


Part I: Media of Early Civilization
* Article on writing pre-cursors (tokens) now by Denise Schmandy-Bessart instead of Rudgley

Part II: The Tradition of Western Literacy
* Adds article by Umberto Eco "A Medieval Library"

Part III: The Print Revolution
* No change

Part IV: Electricity Creates the Wired World
* Subtracts article "Inventing the Expert" by Carolyn Marvin

Part V: Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society
* Subtracts "On Photography" by Susan Sontag
* Adds "Movies Talk" by Scott Eyman

Part VI: Radio Days
* Subtracts "Radio and Race" by Gerald Nachman
* Adds "Radio in a Television Age" by Fornatale and Joshua E Mills
* Adds "Radio Voices" by Michele Hilmes

Part VII: TV Times
* Adds "Two-Cultures--Television versus Print by Neil Postman and Camille Paglia

Part VIII: New Media and Old in the Information Age
* Subtracts "From the Codex Page to the Homepage" by James J. O'Donnell
* Adds "The Social Shape of Electronics" by Ruth Schwartz Cowen

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars table of contents, September 13, 2008
By Christopher Ridgeway (Chicago, IL United States) - See all my reviews
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This is exactly what I was looking for - a media studies perspective on world history. There is now a newer edition, but this one is remarkable and still feels rather up-to-date.

Table of Contents
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Part I--Media of Early Civilization

[Chapter 1] The Art and Symbols of Ice Age Man
Alexander Marshack

[Chapter 2] A New Rosetta Stone
Richard Rudgley (Denise Schmandt-Bessarat)

[Chapter 3] Media in Ancient Empires
Harold Innis

[Chapter 4] Civilization without Writing--The Incas and the Quipu
Marcia Ascher and Robert Ascher

[Chapter 5] The Origins of Writing
Andrew Robinson



Part II--The Tradition of Western Literacy

[Chapter 6] The Alphabet
Johanna Drucker

[Chapter 7] The Greek Legacy
Eric Havelock

[Chapter 8] Writing and the Alphabet Effect
Robert K. Logan

[Chapter 9] Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media
Walter Ong

[Chapter 10] A Medieval Library
Umberto Eco

[Chapter 11] Communication in the Middle Ages
James Burke



Part III--The Print Revolution

[Chapter 12] Paper and Block Printing--From China to Europe
T.F. Carter

[Chapter 13] The Invention of Printing
Lewis Mumford

[Chapter 14] The Rise of the Reading Public
Elizabeth Eisenstein

[Chapter 15] Early Modern Literacies
Harvey J. Graff

[Chapter 16] The Trade in News
John B. Thompson



Part IV--Electricity Creates the Wired World

[Chapter 17] The Optical Telegraph
Daniel Headrick

[Chapter 18] Telegraphy--The Victorian Internet
Tom Standage

[Chapter 19] The New Journalism
Michael Schudson

[Chapter 20] The Telephone Takes Command
Claude S. Fischer

[Chapter 21] Inventing the Expert
Carolyn Marvin

[Chapter 22] Time, Space, and the Telegraph
James W. Carey



Part V--Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society

[Chapter 23] On Photography
Susan Sontag

[Chapter 24] Early Photojournalism
Ulrich Keller

[Chapter 25] Dream Worlds of Consumption
Rosalynd Williams

[Chapter 26] Early Motion Pictures
Daniel Czitrom

[Chapter 27] Mass Media and the Star System
Jib Fowles

[Chapter 28] Advertising and the Idea of Mass Society
Jackson Lears



Part VI--Radio Days

[Chapter 29] Wireless World
Stephen Kern

[Chapter 30] Early Radio
Susan J Douglas

[Chapter 31] The Golden Age of Programming
Christopher Sterling and John M. Kittross

[Chapter 32] Radio and Race
Gerald Nachman

[Chapter 33] Understanding Radio
Marshall McLuhan



Part VII--TV Times

[Chapter 34] Television Begins
Willaim Boddy

[Chapter 35] The New Languages
Edmund Carpenter

[Chapter 36] Making Room for TV
Lynn Spigel

[Chapter 37] The Sixties Counterculture on TV
Aniko Bodroghkozy

[Chapter 38] Television Transforms the News
Mitchell Stephens



Part VIII--New Media and Old in the Information Age

[Chapter 39] The Control Revolution
James Beniger

[Chapter 40] How Media Became New
Lev Manovich

[Chapter 41] Popularizing the Internet
Janet Abbate

[Chapter 42] From the Codex Page to the Homepage
James J O'Donnell

[Chapter 43] The World Wide Web
Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin
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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The previous edition contains an excellent selection, August 25, 1998
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This review is from: Communication in History (Paperback)
The previous edition had an excellent selection of articles, chapters and exerpts. I have used it twice for a class I teach on information in society. I would consider using the new edition if it was available by October. When will it be published? Please let me know by email.
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