This book is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass communication that have accelerated the advancement of human culture

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electr

The industrial nations of the world have become Information Societies. Advanced technologies have created a communication revolution, and the individual, throug

The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and wo

Introduces the evolution of communication from ancient times, describing the development of writing, the alphabet, paper, writing instruments, and scrolls in th