Communication Revolution
Title | Communication Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Waterman McChesney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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In this sharply argued book, McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution which is at the centre of 21st century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part because media criticism and scholarship haven't been up to the task. McChesney's concise history of media studies shows how communication scholarship has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as the media became a decisive issue of these times. The revolution in communication calls for a transformation in the way we think about media.
Inside the Communication Revolution
Title | Inside the Communication Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Mansell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780198296560 |
This book contains original empirical studies conducted within a programme of research in the Information, Networks and Knowledge (INK) research centre at SPRU, University of Sussex.
Revolutions in Communication
Title | Revolutions in Communication PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Kovarik |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 481 |
Release | 2015-11-19 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1628924780 |
Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. Updated to reflect new research that has surfaced these past few years, Revolutions in Communication continues to provide students and teachers with the most readable history of communications, while including enough international perspective to get the most accurate sense of the field. The supplemental reading materials on the companion website include slideshows, podcasts and video demonstration plans in order to facilitate further reading.
Liberating Voices
Title | Liberating Voices PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Schuler |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 619 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 0262693666 |
Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.
India's Communication Revolution
Title | India's Communication Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Arvind Singhal |
Publisher | SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2001-06-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This very readable book describes the recent social changes in Indian society, resulting from the various applications of new communication technologies. The authors discuss the various processes at work in the country both at the governmental level and in private enterprise, the rapid technological developments and their impact on Indian society, the growth of software technology parks, the internet revolution, and the lessons learned so far. They also highlight the role played by the pioneers, visionaries and innovators.
Innovation and the Communications Revolution
Title | Innovation and the Communications Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | John Bray |
Publisher | IET |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2002-06-14 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0852962185 |
Presenting profiles of the mathematicians, engineers, and other scientists who helped create and develop communications technologies, Bray (Imperial College London) begins his volume in the mid-18th century, looking at people like Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, and Hertz, who created the mathematical and scientific foundations of telecommunications. He proceeds to offer chapters on telegraph and cable engineers, telephone engineers, inventors of the thermionic valve, pioneers of radio and television broadcasting, microwave radio-relay engineers, the inventors of the transistor and the microchip, the creators of information theory and digital techniques, satellite communication engineers, pioneers optical fiber communications, and inventors of the Internet and mobile communications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The Analogue Revolution
Title | The Analogue Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Webb |
Publisher | Casemate Publishers |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2018-05-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1526715392 |
We are all familiar with the digital revolution that has swept across the developed world in recent years. It has ushered in an age of smartphones, laptop computers and ready access to the internet. A little over a century ago, a similar explosion took place in the field of information and communication technology. This revolution was not digital but analogue, and it saw the birth of mass media such as newspapers, cinema and radio.In The Analogue Revolution, Simon Webb examines the impact that developments in printing, photography, wireless telegraphy, gramophones and moving pictures had in the years preceding the First World War, and shows how the modern world was shaped by the media used to record it. From the first mass-circulation newspapers to cameras so cheap that everybody could afford them, from early experiments in radio broadcasting to cinema films in color, The Analogue Revolution charts the history of the first information revolution of the twentieth century. The parallels with the modern world are uncanny, ranging from anxiety about the use of new technology to distribute pornography, to worries about children losing interest in reading because they prefer to watch films.For anybody wishing to understand the modern world, this book is an essential primer in the nature of information revolutions and the way in which they affect the world.