A History of Communication Technology is a comprehensive illustrated account of the technologies and inventions in mass communication that have accelerated the advancement of human culture and society.
The book covers a timeline in the history of mass communication that begins with human prehistory and extends all the way to the current digital age. Using rich, full-color graphics and diagrams, it details the workings of various mass communication inventions, from paper-making, printing presses, photography, radio, TV, film and video, to computers, digital devices and the Internet. Readers are given insightful narratives on the social impact of these technologies, brief historical accounts of the inventors, and sidebars on the related technologies that enabled these inventions.
This book is ideal for students in introductory mass communication, visual communication, and history of media courses, offering a highly approachable, graphic-oriented approach to the history of communication technologies. It also offers a highly visual and graphical narrative to anyone interested in the history of communication.
300 full color pages
181 graphics and illustrations
56 photos
About the author:
Philip A. Loubere is a professor of Visual Communication at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the faculty at MTSU he worked for eighteen years in a professional capacity in information graphics and publication design, twelve of those years for three major metro newspapers, The Seattle Times, the San Jose Mercury News, and The Orange County Register.
Professor Loubere was the sole creator in every aspect of this publication, with the exception of photographs. He researched every topic and wrote all text, created all the graphics and illustrations, and designed and typeset all the pages of the book, in the end delivering a press-ready document to the publishers.
ISBN:
Paperback: 9780367211509
Hardback: 9780367211493
eBook: 9780429265723
Order:
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