Revolutions in Communication
Media history from Gutenberg to the Digital Age
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About the book
Reviews
Acknowledgements
Lacunae & errata
About the author
Course
Model course calendar
Lecture Slides 1 — Intro & Print Revolution
Lecture Slides 2 — Visual Revolution
Lecture Slides 3 – Electronic Revolution
Lecture Slides 4 — Digital Revolution
Chapters
Ch 0 Introduction to media history
Ch 0 About history
Ch 0 About historians
Ch 0 Media & technology
Ch 1 Printing
Ch 1 Videos & Podcasts
Ch 1 Further reading
Ch 2 Industrial press
Ch 3 Modern press
Ch3 War correspondents
Ch3 Muckraking, gonzo & sports
Ch3 Demise of the newspaper
Ch 4 Photography
Ch 5 Cinema
Ch 6 Advertising & PR
Ch 7 Telegraph & telephone
Ch7 The first wire services
Ch 8 Radio
Ch8 Inside radio
Ch 8 Music & the internet
Ch 9 Television
Ch 10 Computers
Ch 11 Networks
Ch 11.Data visualization
Ch 12 Global cultures
Features
Life in the old printing ‘chapel’
The Spirit of the Chapel
Building a replica press
Ben Franklin’s environmental controversy
Three monopolies that built the telegraph
News before & after the telegraph
Radio and the Titanic
Civil rights and the press
II Civil rights & the press
Science & environmental journalism
Science & environmental press
Walter Lippmann and the radium girls
Teddy bears and mind bombs
Radio time machine
Street press of the Velvet Revolution
The Retro-Future of Communication
Rebuilding community media
Newsroom of the future (via ChatGPT)
Photography
Photography 1820s – 1880s
Photography 1880s – 1920s
Photography – Migrant Mother
Photography 1920s – 40s
Photography in WWII
Photography 1950s-70s
Modern era
Cinema /TV
Early experiments
African American film pioneers
Oscar Micheaux
Animation
The Silent Era
Golden Age of Hollywood
Film censorship
Newsreels
Documentaries
European cinema (mid-20th century)
WWII propaganda
1960s & 70s
Blockbusters
Public domain comm films
TV 1950s – 60s
TV 1970s-80s
TV 1990s – 2000s
Research
Content analysis
Books about the Media
Movies about the Media
Museums and collections
Travel & Adventure
Hands-On History
Writing
Printing
The Nellie Bly game
Signals & codes
Golden age of radio
Cinema
TDIH
Int’l media
NGOs and the UN
Wire services
Global Media development 1940s–1970s
Media globalization 1980s – 2000s
History of African media
History of Asian media
History of European media
History of Latin American media
History of Middle Eastern media
History of North and Central American media
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June 30, 2023
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Science & Information Revolutions
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