The Bias of Communication

出版者:University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

作者:Harold A. Innis

页数:304

出版时间:2008-9-1

价格:USD 30.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780802096067

图书标签:Harold_Innis傳播學technologysocietypowerphilosophy_of_technologycultureMEDIA

One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development. Innis considers political and economic forces in the context of social change and the role of communication in the creation of both ancient and modern empires. In an essay for this new edition, Innis biographer Alexander John Watson examines the reasons why Innis, at the height of his success as an economic historian, embarked on new research areas of communications and empire, as well as the ways in which Marshall McLuhan's interpretations of Innis changed and de-politicized Innis's work. As important today as it was when first published, The Bias of Communication is essential reading for historians and scholars of communication and media studies.

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each tech enables its own monopoly of knowlege, explaining the title of the book

Note the western oral tradition as the primal paradigm for knowledge production.

each tech enables its own monopoly of knowlege, explaining the title of the book

each tech enables its own monopoly of knowlege, explaining the title of the book

each tech enables its own monopoly of knowlege, explaining the title of the book