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Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Key Thinkers in the History of Media vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 3
6. In the Beginning Was … 11
7. Geomedia 13
8. Biomedia 19
9. The Talking Human 22
10. Doing Things with Words 26
11. Visual Communication: Images, Sculptures, and Counting Systems 32
12. From Bookkeeping to Writing 37
13. Enduring media: Stone, Clay, Rituals 40
14. Connecting Empires 43
15. Writing and Reading Practices: The Examples of Greece and Rome 48
16. Silk Roads 53
17. Arabic Convergence Culture 56
18. European Information Overload 61
19. Medieval Intermedia 66
20. The Inca Empire Solves a Knotty Problem 71
21. Early Modern Oral, Written, and Visual Continuity 73
22. Multimedia Festivals and Everyday Life 79
23. A Partially New Printing Technology 83
24. A Printing Revolution? 90
25. The Media of the Scientific Revolution 98
26. Print Capitalism 100
27. Politics and the Public Sphere 104
28. Memory, Rights, and Literacy 107
29. The modern Experience – Media in the Nineteenth Century 111
30. Speech in the Public Sphere 120
31. The Medium Par Excellence? 125
32. The Modern Press 129
33. Electric Media 140
34. A New Visual Culture 150
35. Audiovisual Media – About the Past 155
36. The Media of the Masses 157
37. Mass Media as an Industry 167
38. Mass Media as Politics in the Twentieth Century 182
39. Mass Media Hardware: The Example of Japan 198
40. Everyday Media 206
41. Remediation and Mobility 215
42. Analog and Digital 217
43. Calculating Machines as Media (or Vice Versa) 222
44. Memex, Infrastructures, and Networks 231
45. Breakthrough of the PC 237
46. World Wide Web 244
47. The Social Significance of Computerization 249
48. Mobile Devices – Social and Streaming Media 253
49. Digital Media Specificity and Big Data 259
50. Afterword 269
51. References 275
52. Index 293