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Author Briggs, Asa, 1921-

Title A social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the Internet / Asa Briggs and Peter Burke.

Imprint Cambridge : Polity, c2009.

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 CCQ - Lusail Male Library  P90    Available
Edition 3rd ed.
Description viii, 346 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Note Previous ed.: 2005.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Printing in its Contexts -- The Media and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Europe -- Technologies and Revolutions -- New Processes and Patterns -- Information, Education, Entertainment -- Media Convergences -- In and Out of Cyberspace
Summary This third edition has been thoroughly revised to bring the text up to date with the very latest developments in the field. Increased space is given to the exciting media developments of the early 21st Century, including in particular the rise o
Avoiding technological determinism and rejecting assumptions of straightforward evolutionary progress, this book brings out the rich and varied histories of communication media. In an age of fast-paced media developments, a thorough understandin
Subject Mass media -- History.
Mass media -- Social aspects.
Mass media -- Economic aspects.
Added Author Burke, Peter, 1937-
ISBN 9780745644943 (hbk.)
0745644945 (hbk.)
0745644953 (pbk.)
9780745644950 (pbk.)