Introduction -- The printing revolution -- The divine art -- The commercial and industrial media revolution: from 1814 to 1900 -- Print media in the Twentieth and Twenty-first centuries -- The visual revolution -- Photography: giving vision to history -- Cinema : the image comes alive -- Advertising, public relations and the crafted image -- The electronic revolution: from "national neighborhoods" to the global village -- The first electronic revolution: telegraph and telephone -- The new world of radio -- Television: a new window on the world -- The digital revolution -- Computers -- Digital networks -- Global culture.
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Offers a alternative approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik narrates the story of revolutions in printing, electronic communication and digital information, while drawing parallels between the past and present. --From publisher description.