Bill Kovarik

Revolutions in Communication (eBook, PDF)

Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This new and expanded edition of Revolutions in Communication, the 3rd edition, explores printing, imaging, electronic and digital media history within a framework of technological change and social impacts. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's scholarship narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. This edition builds on the success of the previous two editions as a leading media history textbook. The 3rd edition includes: - Digital media technology, impacts and expectations that have changed since 2015. - Updated and additional information that has become recently available, including: declassified histories of super-computers, the US news media's record on civil rights, Gutenberg's printing experiments in the 1440s, the role of the 1796 invention of lithography and improving the printing and culture of music. - A sharper international focus and effort to avoid the impression that Europe is more or less at the center of mass media history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765107195
• Artikelnr.: 75302219

Autorenporträt

Bill Kovarik, Ph.D. is a Professor of Communication at Radford University, a publicly supported graduate level school located near (and once part of) Virginia Tech, USA. He earned his B.S. in Journalism at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1974, his M.A. in Communications at the University of South Caroline in 1983 and his Ph.D. in Public Communications at the University of Maryland in 1993. His previous books include Web Design for the Mass Media (2001) and Mass Media and Environmental Conflict (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction to media history
SECTION I: The Printing Revolution
1. Printing: The Divine Art
2. The Industrial Printing Revolution
3. The Press and the End of the Newspaper Era
SECTION II: The Visual Revolution
4. Photography: Giving Vision to History
5. Cinema: The Empathy Machine
6. Advertising, Public Relations, and the Crafted Image
SECTION III: The Electronic Revolution
7. Telegraph, Phonograph, and Telephone
8. Radio: Like Discovering a New Continent
9. Television: A Window on the World
SECTION IV: The Digital Revolution
10. Computers: Tubes, to Transistors, to Chips
11. Digital Networks, Tech Giants, and the New Media
12. Global Cultures
References
Table of illustrations
Index