A social history of the media :
Briggs, Asa, 1921-2016
A social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the Internet / Asa Briggs and Peter Burke. - 3rd ed. - Cambridge ; Malden : Polity, 2009. - 346 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Ch. 1. Introduction --
Ch. 2. Printing in its contexts --
Ch. 3. The media and the public sphere in Early Modern Europe --
Ch. 4. Technologies and revolutions --
Ch. 5. New processes and patterns --
Ch. 6. Information, education, entertainment --
Ch. 7. Media convergences --
Ch. 8. In and out of cyberspace.
Increased space is given to the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the globalization of media. Additionally, new and important research is incorporated into the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication.
9780745644950
Mass media--History
Mass media--Social aspects
Mass media--Economic aspects
302.23
A social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the Internet / Asa Briggs and Peter Burke. - 3rd ed. - Cambridge ; Malden : Polity, 2009. - 346 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes index.
Ch. 1. Introduction --
Ch. 2. Printing in its contexts --
Ch. 3. The media and the public sphere in Early Modern Europe --
Ch. 4. Technologies and revolutions --
Ch. 5. New processes and patterns --
Ch. 6. Information, education, entertainment --
Ch. 7. Media convergences --
Ch. 8. In and out of cyberspace.
Increased space is given to the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century, including in particular the rise of social and participatory media and the globalization of media. Additionally, new and important research is incorporated into the classic material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and the relationship between physical transportation and social communication.
9780745644950
Mass media--History
Mass media--Social aspects
Mass media--Economic aspects
302.23