The Hidden Meaning of Mass Communications: Cinema, Books, and Television in the Age of Computers

by Fereydoun Hoveyda

In 1917, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire predicted the death of books in one or two centuries and their replacement by film and sound. In the early sixties, Marshall McLuhan proclaimed the end of the Gutenberg Galaxy. Neither of these predictions has yet happened. Nonetheless, the development of computer science and the spread of the Internet have already changed the landscape of the media and affected the fields of book publishing, journalism,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275969967
• ISBN13: 9780275969967
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"