Charles T. Meadow

Making Connections

Communication through the Ages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Meadow takes us on a Cook's tour of communication technologies across time_the alphabet and moveable type printing, cave drawings and carrier pigeons, telephones, television and, of course, the Internet. In each case, Meadow shows how these (and other devices) are connected to each other, even as they serve to make connections between people.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 382
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 480g
• ISBN-13: 9780810842342
• ISBN-10: 0810842343
• Artikelnr.: 24430219

Autorenporträt

Charles T. Meadow is Professor Emeritus at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto. He is the author of Ink into Bits: A Web of Converging Media (2002) and Messages, Meaning and Symbols: The Communication of Information (2006), both published by Scarecrow.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 3
Chapter 1: The Basics of Communication
Chapter 4 1 Background
Chapter 5
Chapter 2: Telecommunication Before Steam and Electricity
Chapter 6 2 Spoken Language and Sound Transmission
Chapter 7 3 Writing and Printing
Chapter 8 4 Visual Signalling
Chapter 9 5 Transportation as Communication-1
Chapter 10
Chapter 3: Steam, Electricity, and Internal Combustion
Chapter 11 6 Transportation as Communication-2
Chapter 12 7 Telegraph
Chapter 13 8 Telephone
Chapter 14
Chapter 4: Electronics
Chapter 15 9 Radio
Chapter 16 10 Television
Chapter 17 11 Communication Satellites
Chapter 18 12 The Internet and the Information Highway
Chapter 19
Chapter 5: Looking Backward and Forward
Chapter 20 13 Summation and Projection
Chapter 21 14 One Hundred Dates to Remember
Chapter 22 Bibliography
Chapter 23 Index
Chapter 24 About the Author