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The Ascent of Media
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The Ascent of Media

From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenberg

Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2011 mais...


Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative

Recommendation

Media entrepreneur Roger Parry has written a worthwhile book that clarifies how early media forms influence the latest digital media, which shape your daily life and society’s perceptions of the world. Parry’s fascinating history helps you understand how the media affect your thinking and emotions. getAbstract warmly recommends this history of media to anyone who has read a book, watched a movie, listened to music, talked on the phone, attended a play or surfed the web. It contains hundreds of interesting, little-known details about every aspect of the media universe.

Take-Aways

  • Early media communicated in a direct way. Today’s mass media, by contrast, offer “mediated” communication.
  • Media’s basic purpose is to deliver information.
  • All media are based on one or more of these four core elements: “speech, music, images and writing.”

About the Author

Roger Parry, an Oxford University visiting fellow, is the former CEO of Clear Channel International and chairman of Shakespeare’s Globe Trust.


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