Invention of Communication

by Armand Mattelart

Book Overview

A tour of the multiple usages and systems that each historic period puts forth in the name of communication. This genealogy maps the many means by which humans interact - from cataloguing others, to asserting power over them, to working together with them to build new forms of community. Included are topics such as the elaboration of warfare as a logistic; the rise of professional societies of propaganda and national propagation; the history of universal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816626979
• ISBN13: 9780816626977
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"