A social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the Internet / Asa Briggs and Peter Burke.
"In this new and revised edition, Asa Briggs and Peter Burke have updated their classic study to cover the media developments of the early twenty-first century. In addition to the historical material exploring the continuing importance of oral and manuscript communication, the rise of print and...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA :
Polity,
2005.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The print revolution in context
- The media and the public sphere in early modern Europe
- From steam to electricity
- Processes and patterns
- Information, education, entertainment
- Convergence
- Multimedia.