TY  - BOOK
AU  - Briggs,Asa
AU  - Burke,Peter
TI  - A social history of the media: from Gutenberg to the Internet 
SN  - 9780745644950
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, Malden
PB  - Polity
KW  - Mass media
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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