Media, technology, and society : theories of media evolution

In Media, Technology, and Society, some of the most prominent figures in media studies explore the issue of media evolution. Focusing on a variety of compelling examples in media history, ranging from the telephone to the television, the radio to the Internet, these essays collectively address a ser...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neuman, W. Russell
Format: eBook Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor Digital Culture Books/University of Michigan Press : University of Michigan Library 2010
University of Michigan Press
Subjects:
Book Industry Communication
Communication
Digital media
Digital media > Technological innovations
Digital rights management
Digital technology
Film, TV & radio
Innovation
Internet
Mass media
Mass media > Social aspects
Mass media > Technological innovations
Media
P87-96
Privacy
Security
Social aspects
Technological change
Technological innovations
The arts
ISBN:0472070827, 9780472070824, 9780472050826, 0472050826
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Table of Contents:
  • Inventing television : citizen Sarnoff and one Philo T. Farnsworth
  • W. Russell Neuman --
  • Theories of media evolution
  • Some say the Internet should never have happened
  • From the telegraph and telephone to the Negroponte switch
  • Hollywood 2.0 : how Internet distribution will affect the film industry
  • Harmeet Sawhney --
  • Gigi Sohn and Timothy Schneider.
  • The evolution of radio
  • The cable fables : the innovative imperative of excess capacity
  • Privacy and security policy in the digital age
  • John Carey --
  • Amitai Etzioni --
  • Paul N. Edwards --
  • Evan I. Schwartz --
  • Newspaper culture and technical innovation, 1980-2005
  • Who controls content? the future of digital rights management
  • Rich Ling --
  • Eli Noam --
  • Pablo J. Boczkowski --