A history of communications [electronic resource] media and society from the evolution of speech to the Internet.

• COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; TABLES AND CHARTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: MEDIA CAUSES AND MEDIA EFFECTS; 1 HOMO LOQUENS: Humanity in the Age of Speech; 2 HOMO SCRIPTOR: Humanity in the Age of Manuscripts; 3 HOMO LECTOR: Humanity in the Age of Print; 4 HOMO VIDENS: Humanity in the Age of Audiovisual Media; 5 HOMO SOMNIANS: Humanity in the Age of the Internet; CONCLUSION: THE MEDIA AND HUMAN WELL-BEING; NOTES; INDEX. 

• Communications and Humanity advances a new theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication on human history. 

Ämnesord

Kommunikation  -- historia (sao)

Kommunikation  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Digitala medier  -- sociala aspekter (sao)

Communication -- Social aspects. 

Digital media -- Social aspects. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HM1206 (LCC)

302.209 (DDC)

Bra (kssb/8 (machine generated))