A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet

by Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, Espen Ytreberg

Book Overview

Written by two leading social and cultural historians, A Social History of the Media provides a masterful overview of communication media and of the social and cultural contexts within which they... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745644953
• ISBN13: 9780745644950
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

great read

Like other books I've read by Peter Burke, this is a great and informative work. Here he covers the "print revolution in context" showing the who, where, and how of the rise of printing, and discussing it's interaction with the continuing other media types such as oral communication, hand-written documents and visual images (woodcut printing, religious paintings and statuary). He also shows the political and religious conflicts and issues which are locked in a feedback loop with the development of the media.Fascinating to compare to the rise of modern media types like weblogs in conjunction with the present political discourse.