ISBN: 9789384052898    Publisher: Bloomsbury India Year of publishing: 2014     Format:  Hardcover No of Pages: 384        Language: English

The rise of the Information Age the fall of the traditional media and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. We need to understand these revolutions because they influence our present and future as much as any other trend in history. And we need to understand them not simply on a national basis - an unstable foundation for history in any event - but rather as part of the emergent global communications network. Unlike most of the current texts in the field Revolutions in Communication is an up-todate resource expanding upon contemporary scholarship. It provides students and teachers with detailed sidebars about key figures technical innovations global trends and social movements as well as supplemental reading materials.
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