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" Revolutions in communication : "
Bill Kovarik.
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BL
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854906
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Kovarik, Bill
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Revolutions in communication : : media history from Gutenberg to the digital age /\ Bill Kovarik.
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Second edition.
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New York, NY ;London, UK :: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.,, [2016]
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, ©2016
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ix, 470 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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1628924780
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: 9781628924787
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9781628924794 (ePub)
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9781628924800 (ePDF)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The printing revolution -- The divine art -- The commercial and industrial media revolution: from 1814 to 1900 -- Print media in the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries -- The visual revolution -- Photography: giving vision to history -- Cinema : the image comes alive -- Advertising, public relations and the crafted image -- The electronic revolution: from "national neighborhoods" to the global village -- The first electronic revolution: telegraph and telephone -- The new world of radio -- Television: a new window on the world -- The digital revolution -- Computers -- Digital networks -- Global culture.
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Offers a alternative approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. --From publisher description.
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Communication-- History.
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Mass media-- History.
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05.30 mass communication and mass media: general.
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Communication.
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Kommunikation
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Mass media.
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Massenmedien
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Media Studies.
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Media Studies.
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| Dewey Classification
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302.2309
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P90.K666 2016
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05.30bcl
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