Communication in History: TECHNLGY CULT&SOCTY

This accessible volume provides a comprehensive introductory reader to the history of communication. Covering a period of 50,000 years, it examines the role that human communication, and its technical extensions, has played in the transformation of society, from earliest times to today's "information age". It is divided into eight sections, each section includes an introduction which highlights the essays in that section and provides background commentary noting important concepts.