Harold A. Innis: Empire & Communications (1950/1986)
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It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge.
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Babylonia, monopoly of knowledge, papyrus, Hittites, Egypt, Byzantine empire, Persian empire, Sumerian, oral tradition, Hyksos, Dionysus, Assyrian, Kassites, Orphism, monasticism, Roman law, Mitanni, Werner Jaeger, Aramaic, Athens
Edited by Dave Godfrey
Publisher Press Porcépic, 1986
ISBN 0888782446, 9780888782441
Length 184 pages
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Paul Heyer: Harold Innis (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · critical media studies, history of communications, media, media theory, political economy
His name may not be as well known as that of his colleague and spiritual descendent, Marshall McLuhan, but Harold Innis’s (1894-1952) influence on contemporary critical media and communication studies has been no less profound. This concise look at Innis’s life and contributions to the communication field charts his beginnings in political economy to his later work in critical media studies and communications history, synthesizing his key publications and clearly showing their ongoing resonance for the field today. The book also includes an appendix by William J. Buxton on the “History of Communications” manuscript and one by J. David Black on the contributions of Mary Quayle Innis.
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Harold Innis, University of Toronto, monopoly of knowledge, Harold Adams Innis, fur trade, Marshall McLuhan, space-bias, Innis’s, Eric Havelock, History of Communications, Donald Grant Creighton, Canadian Pacific Railway, Alfred Kroeber, political economy, quipu, Thorstein Veblen, communication studies, Ronald Deibert, Peter Pond, David Crowley
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
ISBN 0742524841, 9780742524842
Length 133 pages
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Barbie Zelizer (ed.): Explorations in Communication and History (2008)
Filed under book | Tags: · audience, cultural studies, history of communications, journalism, technology
When and how do communication and history impact each other? How do disciplinary perspectives affect what we know?
Explorations in Communication and History addresses the link between what we know and how we know it by tracking the intersection of communication and history. Asking how each discipline has enhanced and hindered our understanding of the other, the book considers what happens to what we know when disciplines engage.
Through a critical collection of essays written by top scholars in the field, the book addresses the engagement of communication and history as it applies to the study of technology, audiences and journalism. A comprehensive introduction by Barbie Zelizer contextualises these debates and makes a case for the importance of disciplinary engagement for teaching as well as research in media and cultural studies and each section has a brief introduction to contextualise the essays and highlight the issues they raise, making this an invaluable collection for students and scholars alike.
Publisher Routledge, 2008
ISBN 041577733X, 9780415777339
240 pages
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