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Author : Robert Waterman McChesney
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 24,31 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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In this sharply argued book, McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution which is at the centre of 21st century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part because media criticism and scholarship haven't been up to the task. McChesney's concise history of media studies shows how communication scholarship has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as the media became a decisive issue of these times. The revolution in communication calls for a transformation in the way we think about media.

Author : Douglas Schuler
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262693666

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Inspired by the vision and framework outlined in Christopher Alexander's classic 1977 book, A Pattern Language, Schuler presents a pattern language containing 136 patterns designed to meet these challenges. Using this approach, Schuler proposes a new model of social change that integrates theory and practice by showing how information and communication (whether face-to-face, broadcast, or Internet-based) can be used to address urgent social and environmental problems collaboratively. Each of the patterns that form the pattern language (which was developed collaboratively with nearly 100 contributors) is presented consistently; each describes a problem and its context, a discussion, and a solution. The pattern language begins with the most general patterns ("Theory") and proceeds to the most specific ("Tactics"). Each pattern is a template for research as well as action and is linked to other patterns, thus forming a single coherent whole.

Author : William B. Warner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2013-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 022606140X

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The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution, Protocols of Liberty shows how American patriots—the Whigs—used new forms of communication to challenge British authority before any shots were fired at Lexington and Concord. To understand the triumph of the Whigs over the Brit-friendly Tories, William B. Warner argues that it is essential to understand the communication systems that shaped pre-Revolution events in the background. He explains the shift in power by tracing the invention of a new political agency, the Committee of Correspondence; the development of a new genre for political expression, the popular declaration; and the emergence of networks for collective political action, with the Continental Congress at its center. From the establishment of town meetings to the creation of a new postal system and, finally, the Declaration of Independence, Protocols of Liberty reveals that communication innovations contributed decisively to nation-building and continued to be key tools in later American political movements, like abolition and women’s suffrage, to oppose local custom and state law.

Author : Fred Williams
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1982-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803917828

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'An excellent introduction to a complex and quickly changing field, this book is written in nontechnical prose and will best serve upper-level undergraduate students. His (Prof Williams) orientation reflects concern with modern communication industries. The book presents an insightful glimpse at how the communications revolution is likely to change those industries. It should be in every undergraduate academic library.' -- Choice, February l982 'If you've been looking for a book which neatly summarizes the many and complex elements of the telecommunication and information revolution now underway, look no further...The Communications Revolution is, frankly, a very good book. If you're planning to stock your shelves with writ

Author : Robin Mansell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198296560

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This book contains original empirical studies conducted within a programme of research in the Information, Networks and Knowledge (INK) research centre at SPRU, University of Sussex.

Author : Robert D. McChesney
Publisher : Monthly Review Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,65 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780853459897

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Are the new technologies of the information age reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies. Not a day goes by that we don't see a news clip, hear a radio report, or read an article heralding the miraculous new technologies of the information age. The communication revolution associated with these technologies is often heralded as the key to a new age of "globalization." How is all of this reshaping the labor force, transforming communications, changing the potential of democracy, and altering the course of history itself? Capitalism and the Information Age presents a rigorous examination of some of the most crucial problems and possibilities of these novel technologies.

Author : Annabelle Sreberny
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 21,3 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452902666

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Author : Bill Kovarik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 30,67 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144118550X

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The rise of the Information Age, the fall of the traditional media, and the bewildering explosion of personal information services are all connected to the historical chain of communications' revolutions. We need to understand these revolutions because they influence our present and future as much as any other trend in history. And we need to understand them not simply on a national basis - an unstable foundation for history in any event - but rather as part of the emergent global communications network. Unlike most of the current texts in the field, Revolutions in Communication is an up-to-date resource, expanding upon contemporary scholarship. It provides students and teachers with detailed sidebars about key figures, technical innovations, global trends, and social movements, as well as supplemental reading materials, and a fully supportive companion website. Revolutions in Communication is an authoritative introduction to the history of all branches of media.

Author : John Bray
Publisher : IET
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,91 MB
Release : 2002-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0852962185

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Presenting profiles of the mathematicians, engineers, and other scientists who helped create and develop communications technologies, Bray (Imperial College London) begins his volume in the mid-18th century, looking at people like Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, and Hertz, who created the mathematical and scientific foundations of telecommunications. He proceeds to offer chapters on telegraph and cable engineers, telephone engineers, inventors of the thermionic valve, pioneers of radio and television broadcasting, microwave radio-relay engineers, the inventors of the transistor and the microchip, the creators of information theory and digital techniques, satellite communication engineers, pioneers optical fiber communications, and inventors of the Internet and mobile communications. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Arvind Singhal
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2001-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This very readable book describes the recent social changes in Indian society, resulting from the various applications of new communication technologies. The authors discuss the various processes at work in the country both at the governmental level and in private enterprise, the rapid technological developments and their impact on Indian society, the growth of software technology parks, the internet revolution, and the lessons learned so far. They also highlight the role played by the pioneers, visionaries and innovators.