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Invention Of Communication
Armand Mattelart
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Description for Invention Of Communication
Paperback. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 320 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 578.
A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular ... Read more
A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal expositions and world fairs; the birth of documentary and film out of physiological investigations in the 19th century; the development of press and the popular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Weight
578g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816626977
SKU
V9780816626977
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