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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books About the Media, Media Analysis Websites, No Logo, Factsheet Five, Accuracy in Media, Empire and Communications, the Gutenberg Galaxy, Media Matters for America, Understanding Media: the Extensions of Man, Everything Bad Is Good for You, the Society of the Spectacle, the Journalist and the Murderer, Empire of Mind, Media Lens, Expanded Cinema, Sourcewatch, the Medium Is the Massage, Public Opinion, the Media Elite, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Anti-Cnn, It's Not News, It's Fark, Areopagitica, the Real News, Observatrio Da Imprensa, Do Good Design, Coalition Against Terrorist Media, Tetrad of Media Effects, Mediated, Backlash: the Undeclared War Against American Women, Haunted in the New World, We the Media, North American Congress on Latin America, Media Monitor, Lobbywatch, Live From Baghdad, the Problem of the Media: U.s. Communication Politics in the 21st Century. Excerpt: Empire and Communications is a book published in 1950 by University of Toronto professor Harold Innis. It is based on six lectures Innis delivered at Oxford University in 1948. The series, known as the Beit Lectures, was dedicated to exploring British imperial history. Innis however, decided to undertake a sweeping historical survey of how communications media influence the rise and fall of empires. He traced the effects of media such as stone, clay, papyrus, parchment and paper from ancient to modern times. Innis argued that the "bias" of each medium either toward space or toward time helps determine the nature of the civilization in which that medium dominates. "Media that emphasize time are those that are durable in character such as parchment, clay and stone," he writes in his introduction. These media tend to favour decentralization. "Media that emphasize sp... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7124749

Product Details

Media: Paperback Book, 46 pages

Language: English

Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series (Jun. 11th, 2010)

ISBN-10: 1157921167

ISBN-13: 9781157921165

Dimensions: 9.01 x 5.98 x 0.41 inches

Shipping Weight: 0.60 lbs

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