Handbook of Communication History [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462772303321
• Autore: Simonson Peter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-91940-0; 0-203-14911-4; 1-136-51431-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (529 p.)
• Collana: ICA Handbook Series
• Altri autori (Persone): PeckJanice; CraigRobert T; JacksonJohn
• Disciplina: 302.209
• Soggetti: Communication - History; Communication -- History; Journalism & Communications; Communication & Mass Media; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; The Handbook Of Communication History; Copyright; Contents; Series Editor's Foreword; Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Field; 1. The History of Communication History; 2. Media; 3. Communication Research; Part II: Modes; 4. Audiences: Publics, Crowds, Mass; 5. Rhetoric in Cross-Cultural Perspectives; 6. Conversation; 7. Visual Communication; 8. Communication in Music; Part III:Media; 9. Print Culture; 10. Journalism; 11. Telecommunications; 12. Radio Broadcasting; 13. Television; 14. New Media; Part IV: Society; 15. The City; 16. Science Communication; 17. Politics; 18. Labor; 19. War20. Gender and Media: A Very Short Herstory; 21. Race; 22. Organizing; Part V: World; 23 Rhetoric in Latin America; 24. "Cultural Imperialism" Revisited: Broadcasting in Latin America, India, and China; 25. Communication in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southern Africa; 26. Islam, Mediation, and Technology; 27. Jewish Media and Communication in the Modern Age; 28. East Asian Communication ; Studies; Epilogue: The Futures of Communication; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of commun