EAN: 9781433104121

INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION - ...

An Introduction to the History of Communication: Evolutions and Revolutions provides a
comprehensive overview of how human communication has changed and is changing. Focusing on the
evolutions and revolutions of six key changes in the history of communication - becoming human
creating writing  developing print  capturing the image  harnessing electricity  and exploring
cybernetics - the author reveals how communication was generated  stored  and shared. This
ecological approach provides a comprehensive understanding of the key variables that underlie
each of these great evolutions-revolutions in human communication. Designed as an introduction
for history of communication classes  the text examines the past  attempting to identify the
key dynamics of change in these human  technical  semiotic  social  political  economic  and
cultural structures  in order to better understand the present and prepare for possible future
developments.

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