Communication in History

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: The Media of Early Civilization
	1 The Earliest Precursor of Writing
	2 Media in Ancient Empires
	3 Civilization Without Writing—The Incas and the Quipu
	4 The Origins of Writing
Part Two: The Tradition of Western Literacy
	5 The Greek Legacy
	6 Writing and the Alphabet Effect
	7 Writing Restructures Consciousness
Part Three: The Print Revolution
	8 Paper and Block Printing—From China to Europe
	9 The Invention of Printing
	10 Early Modern Literacies
	11 Sensationalism and News
Part Four: Electricity Creates the Wired World
	12 Time, Space, and the Telegraph
	13 Anti-Lynching Imagery as Visual Protest in the 1890s Black Press
	14 The Telephone Takes Command
	15 Dream Worlds of Consumption
	16 Wireless World
Part Five: Image and Sound
	17 Visual Reportage I
	18 Visual Reportage II
	19 Inscribing Sound
	20 The Making of the Phonograph
	21 Early Motion Pictures
	22 \"Talkies\" and Stardom
Part Six: Broadcasting
	23 Early Radio
	24 The Golden Age of Programming
	25 Race on Radio
	26 Television Begins
	27 Making Room for TV
	28 From Turmoil to Tranquility
Part Seven: New Media and Old in the Digital Age
	29 How Media Became New
	30 Popularizing the Internet
	31 The World Wide Web
	32 A Cultural History of Web 2.0
	33 Social Media Retweets History
	34 How Algorithms Rule Online
Discussion Questions
Suggested Readings
Credits
Index