Acta Diurna 27
Adams, Ansel 135
Adobe Systems 290, 301
Adams, Samuel Hopkins 81, 173 – 174
Advertising
- Advertising Council 182
- business models 170
- broadcasting 182
- children and TV 259
- origins of 166
- economic trends 192
- full service 171 – 172
- Google 191, 315
- image advertising 166
- internet, impact of 190
- NY Times v Sullivan 92, 188
- patent medicine 173 – 174
- philosophy of 171
- postwar industry 185
- FTC regulation 174, 186 – 188
- tobacco 177 – 178, 183, 258
- TV political attacks 250 – 251
- World War II 181
Advertising Agencies
- Doyle, Day,Bernbach 186
- George Reynell 170
- J. Walter Thompson 171, 186
- Leo Burnette 185
- Lord & Thomas 177
- N.W. Ayer 172, 176, 177
- Ogilvy / WPP 186
- Saatchi & Saatchi 186
- Volney Palmer 170
Advertising Regulation
- UK (ASA) 186
- US (FTC) 174, 186, 188
- France 187
- Valentine case 187
- Bigelow v Va. 187
- Nike v Kasky 188
- NYT v Sullivan 188 – 189
African American Press 92, 114
Agricola, Georgius 26
Alien & Sedition Acts 41
Al Jazeera network 263
Atlanta Journal & Constitution
- Grady, Henry 42
- McGill, Ralph 94
- Seldes, George 83
Altamira cave paintings 107 – 108
Amazon 314
America On Line (ISP)
- origins 303, 307
- CNN Time Warner 311 – 312
Amos n’ Andy (radio show) 22
Anderson, Chris (TED) 267
Anderson, Chris (Wired) 314, 331
Andreessen, Marc 295, 308 – 311
Anti-trust
Associated Press 77, 195, 203 – 207
- satellite radio 235
- satellite TV 265
- telegraph 210
- telephone 210
- US v Microsoft
- US v MPPA
- US v NBC 232
- US v Paramount
- US v AP 206
Apple Corp.
- (See Jobs, Steve)
- 1984 Ad 288
- Apple II 282, 285
- brink of bankruptcy 292
- criticism of “apps” 331 – 332
- desktop publishing 290
- iPhone, iPad 292, 332
- iPod 236, 291 – 292
- iTunes 320
- Mac 287, 290
- Xerox 271, 286 – 287
Areopagitica 24, 31
Armstrong, Edwin H. 218
- Associated Press
- anti-trust 204, 205
- Compuserv partner 303
- digital photos 137
- formation of 203
- Inter-Ocean News 204
- Irwin, Will 77
- photo guidelines 293
- Rosenthal,Joe (photo) 133
- Twain, Mark 197
- unbiased journalism 202
- United Press 204
- US v AP 206
- Ut, Nick (photo) 136
- Western AP 204
- Western Union 194, 204
AT&T
- public relations 176
- telephone monopoly 209 – 210
- transistor 280
- Bell Labs 210, 280
Babbage, Charles 273 – 275
Bacon, Francis 13, 17
Baker-Barnett, Ida B. Wells 80, 192
Barlow, John Perry 310
Barnum, Phineas T. 168
Beasley, Maurine 90
Bell, Alexander Graham 9, 204, 208 – 210
Bennett, James Gordon 50 – 53
Berlin National Zeitung 61
Berlin Voissische Zeitung 88
Berliner Tageblatt
- founding 62
- Nazi takeover 82, 88
Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung 128
Berners-Lee, Tim
- computing family 275
- Mosaic 295
- origin of WWW 307 – 308
Bernstein, Carl 96
Bolter, J. David 274
Bezos, Jeff 314
Bigart, Homer 95
Birth of a Nation
- African-Am. press 92, 114
- controversy 144 – 145
Blackwood, William 107, 11
Bly, Nelly 66-67
Boorstin, Daniel J 115, 165
Bourke-White, Margaret 132, 134
Brady, Matthew 112, 119 – 121
Brand, Stewart 282
Brave New World 113
Bricklin, Dan 286
Brin, Sergey 314
Browser wars 312 – 313
Bush, Vannevar
- Babbage, Charles 278
- democracy 290
- typesetting 101, 290
- Memex idea 296
Burke, James 282
Cable News Network CNN 264
CNN – AOL 311
Calvin, John 22, 23
Capa, Robert 131 – 132
Carolus, Johann 28
Case, Steve 311 -312
Castellio, Sebastian 23, 24
Cato letters 30
Casky, Antrim 135
Caxton, William 26, 167
CBS (broadcasting network)
- audience share 265
- news from Europe 224
- origins 219
- Prodigy ISP 303
- Univac computer 279
- War of the Worlds 226
Censorship
- (See Protestant Reformation)
- Sedition Act (1798) 41-42
- China 138, 264, 315
- Cinema 141 – 143
- Creel Committee 83
- Britain 22, 28
- Espionage Act(1917) 83
- France 28, 35, 59 -60, 83
- Germany 61 – 62, 88 – 89
- Google 315
- hate speech 316
- HUAC hearings 157
- internet 297, 310
- MPAA Code 144
- OWI – WWII 230
- Pentagon Papers 95 – 96
- photography 84, 131
- FRC v Trinity (radio) 220
- radio 220 – 222, 227 – 228
- Russia- USSR 85 – 86
- types of censorship 28 – 29
- Vietnam war 95
- West, Mae 223
- World War I 82 – 84
- World War II 89, 230
Cerf, Vint 300
Chaplin, Charlie 144 – 147, 154 – 155
Chappe, Claude 197
Chaucer, Geoffrey 26
Chesterton, Cecil 81
Civil rights
- Bonanza TV cast 256
- cinema 158 – 159
- Hutchins Comm. 92
- news coverage 92 – 94
- television 253 – 257
Clemenceau, Georges 61 , 82
Cinema (also see Hollywood)
- Britain 152, 156, 162
- China 162
- European festivals 163
- Germany 147, 148, 154, 156, 163
- India (Bollywood) 162, 163
- Italy 157
- Japan 153
- Russia 146, 153
Citizen Kane (movie) 72, 150
Cobbett, William 39-41
Colliers (magazine) 77, 17
Columbus, Christopher 25
Compuserv ISP 301, 306
Computers
- Apple II 282, 285
- Apple Mac 287, 290
- Berlin Wall, fall of 290
- CBS election news 279
- democracy 278
- ENIAC, Colossus 276 – 277
- hoax photo 293
- IBM 275, 288
- IBM PC 289
- integrated processors 281
- origins 273 – 274
- TRADIC 280
- transistors 280
- Univac 210, 278
- Xerox Alto 284
Computer Software
- Ada 275
- COBOL ` 276
- FORTRAN 293
- Free Software 320
- Hypertext 284
- Java 291
- MS -Windows 291-292
- MS-DOS 288
- Smalltalk 287
- TCP / IP 300 – 301
- Unix 291, 319
- Visicalc 28
Cooke, William F. 199 – 201
Coster, Laurens 19
Coughlin, Fr. Charles 227 – 229
Cousteau, Jacques 134
Craigslist 325
Cringely, Robert 288
Cronkite, Walter
- Hell at 20,000 feet 231
- JFK assassination 250
- Vietnam 252
- computer of future 279
Currier & Ives 111
Daguerre, Louis 112, 117 – 118, 200
Dana, Charles Henry 51
Daniels, Derek 270
Darnton, Robert 27
DARPA 271, 299
Davis, Richard Harding 71, 82
Day, Benjamin 49 – 51
Desmoulins, Camille 35
Deutsche Presse-Agentur 207
De Toqueville, Alexis 38
Der Stürmer 89
Disney, Walt 153, 155
Dolchstoss 84, 251
Dot-com bubble 311
Douglass, Frederick 92
DuBois, W. E. B. 334
Durante, Walter 87
Dreyfus, Alfred 60
Eastman, George 125, 141
Ebay 316, 324
Edison, Thomas
- Black Maria studio 141
- Eastman, George 141
- Edison monopoly 143
- Kinetoscope 141
- moral value of film 113
- power of film 139
- EFE news service 207
Eisenstein, Elizabeth 20, 26
Englebart, Doug 279, 283 – 284, 300, 301
F64 Group 124
Facebook 326
- (Also see Social Media)
Fanning, Shawn 321
Farm Services Admin. 115, 127
Farnsworth, Philo T. 240
Federal Communications Comm.
- ACT v FCC 260
- Blue Book 232
- deregulation 261
- Fairness Doctrine 230, 241, 261
- FOE v FCC 261
- FRC licensing 219
- FRC v Trinity 221
- FRC formed 219
- Mayflower decision 229, 241
- ownership rules 234
- Red Lion v FCC 241, 261
- safe harbor concept 260
- tech standards TV 241
- United Church v FCC 255
- vast wasteland 246
- violence, V-Chip 260
- West, Mae 224
- WLBT case 254 – 256
Fenno, John 41
Fenton, Roger 111, 119 – 121
Fessenden, Reginald 216 – 217
Fourth Estate 40
Franklin, Benjamin
- apprenticeship 40, 42
- Apology for Printers 24, 25
- colonial unity 111
- freedom of speech 29, 30
- publisher, investor 34
- scientist 119
Freedom’s Journal 92
Freedom of Press
- Alien-Sedition Acts 42
- Article 19, UN 30, 335
- Enlightenment 29 – 30
- First Amendment 30, 335
- Hearst as menace 71
- Jefferson, Thomas 29, 35, 317
- Lenin opposes 86
- Luxembourg, Rosa 86
- Paine, Thomas 35
- Pulitzer libel charge 65
Freneau, Phillip 41
Friedel, Robert 25, 333
Friedman, Milton 103
Friedman, Thomas 7, 264, 333
Gable, Clark 156
Gandhi, Mohandas 87, 225
Gates, Bill
- (See Microsoft)
- IBM 280, 288 – 290
- MSNBC 308
- rivalry with Jobs 292
Gibson, William 269
- advertising 191, 315
- Android 292
- China 315
- origin 314
- traditional media 106, 315
Greenberger, Martin 297
Greeley, Horace
- Mormons, views on 63
- NY Tribune 53-54
- Parton’s biography 5
- philosophy advert. 171
- environmentalist 62
Grunig, James 185
Gutenberg, Johannes 17 – 19, 224
Habermas, Jurgen 5, 31, 74
Halberstam, David 95
Haley, Alex 15
Hastings, Reed 314
Harmsworth, Alfred (Lord Northcliffe) 40, 73 – 74
Harris, Benjamin 28, 32, 40
Havas, Charles Louis 59, 207
Havas news service 207
Hearst, William Randolph
- Bolo Pasha affair 83
- chain publisher 70 – 72
- Citizen Kane 150
- Harmsworth, Alfred 40
- visits Hitler, 1934 72
- Hollywood scandals 144
- Int’l Press Assn. 206
- radio news 226
- yellow journalism 55
Hemingway, Ernest 84, 203
Herodotus (Greek historian) 3
Hershey, John 97
Hertz, Heinrich 212, 213
Higgins, Marguerite 90
Hindenburg disaster 225
Hine, Lewis 115, 126
Hogarth, William 110
Hollerith, Herman 275
Hollywood (US Cinema)
- animation 152
- anti-trust 149
- Civil rights 158 – 159
- computer editing 290
- digital copyright 161
- DVD sales 163
- end of mass audience 163
- fights fascism 155
- fantasy genre 15
- Golden Age 149
- hegemony 196
- industry moves to 143
- McCarthy era 157
- MPAA code 144
- Reconciliation films 157
- special effects 160
- US v Paramount 158
Home Brew Computer Club 285
Hopper, Grace 276, 277
Hubbard, Gardiner G. 204, 208
Hume, David 28
Hus, Jan 21
Hutchins Commission (1947)
- civil rights 92
- Miller report 76
- profit motive 103
- radio concerns 232
- similar principles 335
- social responsibility 91 – 92
IBM Corp.
- CADET model 291
- corporate culture 281
- internet 301
- Microsoft 271
- Microsoft deal 288
- Model 360 280
- Nazi Germany 275
- origins 273
Illustrated London News 107, 111, 128
Innis, Harold 9, 16
Intel Corp. 281
International News Service 83, 205 – 207
Internet
- (Also see World Wide Web)
- Enemies of Freedom 315
- Internet relay chat 301
- ISPs 305 – 307
- listservs 301
- mainstream media 303
- Network value theory 316
- origins 298
- Reno v ACLU 311
- source of news 105
- TCP/IP 300
Internet Service Providers (ISP)
- AOL 307
- Compuserv 301, 306
- Minitel 104, 304
- Prestel 304
- Prodigy 303, 306
- Viewtron 104 – 105. 270, 303
- WWW impact on 319
- Xanadu 307
Irwin, Will 77, 82, 270
Jazz Singer 148
Jefferson, Thomas
- partisan press 41
- press freedom 29, 35, 317
- religious coercion 25
- Thomas Paine 34
- civil rights 92
Jobs, Steve
- Apple II, Mac 285-288
- defends Aps 331
- influences 282
- NeXt, Pixar 287
- return to Apple 292
- rivalry with Gates 292
Journalism
- African-American 91 – 92
- citizen journalists 330
- Civil rights 92 – 94
- crusading 63 – 65
- daily “Me” 329
- literary, gonzo 96
- Internet impact on 76
- literary non-fiction 95 – 96
- muckraking 77 – 81
- science, environment 68 – 70, 97 – 98
- yellow 65, 70 – 72
Joy, Bill 290, 320
JPEG digital photo format 137, 246
Kangura (Rwanda) 89
Katz, John 271
Kilby, Jack 281
Knight – Ridder
- chain operations 103
- Derek Daniels 270
- early iPad 105, 303
- Info Design Lab 105, 303
- Netscape investment 308 – 309
- Viewtron (ISP) 104 – 105, 270, 303
Korn, Arthur 239
Kroeger, Brooke 66
Kubrick, Stanley 269, 281
Kulash, Damian 323
Kurzweil, Raymond 7, 262
Lange, Dorothea 128 – 130
Lee, Ivy 175 – 177
Lennin, Vladimir Ilyich 85
Lessig, Lawrence 322 – 323
Libel
- AP, The Masses 205
- British journalists 39 – 41, 73
- Colliers v Postum 174
- French libeles 35
- muckraking 78
- Nestle Corp. 184
- NY Times v Sullivan 188
- Prodigy v Stratton 306
- Zenger trial 32 – 34
Licklider, J.C.R. 279, 283, 297, 299
Life magazine 128, 130 – 131, 135, 136
Lippmann, Walter
- Four stages of press 74- 75
- science news 70
- stereotypes 113
Livingston, David 56-57
Loewen, James 3
Locke, John 29, 38
London, Times of
- established 39
- steam printing 46- 48
- competitors taxed 56
- Harmsworth buys 73
- Charge Light Brigade 119
- public health 98
- Russell, Wm. H. 203
London Daily Telegraph 56
London Daily Mail 73
London Daily Mirror 73
Lovelace, Ada 274
Luce, Henry 128
Luddites
- view of technology 8
- Cobbett defends 41
- Times of London 46 – 47
Lumière, Auguste and Louis 139, 141
Lun , Ts’ai 18
Luxemburg, Rosa 86
Luther, Martin 21 – 22
MacBride report 263, 335
Magazines
- muckraking 77 – 81
- patent medicine 173 – 174
Marat, Jean Paul 36
Marconi, Guglielmo
- radio as fertilizer 9
- radio invented 213 – 216
- Titanic disaster 216
- future of radio 236
Marx Brothers 151
Marx, Karl 54, 62
Masses, The (magazine) 205
Maxwell, James Clerk 213
McChesney, Robert 91, 102, 219
McClure’s (magazine) 77
McGill, Ralph 94
McLuhan, Marshall
- advertising 165, 191
- electronic vs literate 267
- global village 9, 264
- hot & cool media 10
- media impacts 6
- medium is message 9, 202
- political impacts 27
- re-tribalization 15, 267
- Tetrad media change 11, 142
Medill, Joseph 13
Melies, George 142
Metcalf, Bob 300, 316
Meyer, Phillip 104
Microsoft Corp.
- (See Bill Gates)
- Apple lawsuit 291
- IBM 271 , 280
- MSNBC 308
- origins 288 – 289
- Xbox 292
Milton, John 24, 31
Minitel ISP 104, 201, 304
Miyazaki, Hayao 153
Monopoly (See anti-trust)
MPEG audio standard 236, 246
Moon hoax (NY Sun) 50
Moore, Gordon 281
Moore’s Law 281
Morrison, Herbert 225
Morse, Samuel
- Brady, Matthew 119
- competitors 198, 201
- Daguerre, Louis 119
- monopoly warning 197, 200, 207
- telegraph, invention 193, 198 – 201
- wife’s death 199
Morse code
- binary system 197
- Morse invents 199 – 200
- Europe adopts 207
- Typesetting influence 43, 199
Mortara affair (1858) 55
Muckraking
- journalism 77 – 81
- magazines 77
- Pearson, Drew 89
- photography 126
- public relations 175, 181
- radio 221
- Roosevelt, Theodore 78
Murdoch, Rupert 270
Myhrvold, Nathan 273
MySpace 270, 326
Murrow, Edward R.
- Buchanwald report 231
- documentaries 265
- Hear it Now 232
- London calling 230
- McCarthy, Joseph 243
- NAB speech 238, 239
- radio news Europe 225, 230, 231
- Radulovich, Milo 243
- See it Now 244
- Shirer, William 225
- Stewart, John 266
- sponsor trouble 231 – 232, 244
- Univac 279
Muybridge, Eadweard 140
Napster 162, 236, 321
NBC network
- Civil rights coverage 254
- development 224-226
- losing audience 265
- Microsoft MSNBC 308
- origins 219
- television 241
- US v NBC 232
Negroponte, Nicholas 164, 329
Nelson, Ted 282, 297, 301, 307
Netflix 163, 314
Netscape (browser) 308, 313
Newmark, Craig 325
Nevins, Allan 2
New Century Network 105, 270
New York Daily Graphic 115
New York Herald 50 – 53, 56, 62, 203
New York Herald-Tribune 90, 91
New York Journal 55, 70 -72, 225
New York Sun 49-51
New York Times
- Duranty, Walter 87
- founding 54 – 55
- Mortara affair 66
- muckraking 78
- New Century 105
- NY Times v Sullivan 92, 188
- Ochs, Adolph 55
- Raymond, Henry 55
- Tamany Hall 55, 80
- Van Anda, Carr 70
New York Tribune 53- 54, 82
New York World 55, 61-65, 67
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung 83
Newspapers
- anti-Trust laws 103
- deToqueville on 38
- early newspapers 27 – 28
- economic trouble 71, 102 -104
- Internet impact on 104 – 106
- partisan press 37 – 42
- Patent ads 174
- pauper Press 39, 56
- penny Press 48
- political impacts 31
- Preservation Act 103
- rebuilt after WWII 91
- US support for 37
Niepce, Joseph Nicephore 117
Niles, Hezekiah
- Adams, John 34
- American newspapers 38
- objectivity 42
- Civil War anticipated 42
- newspaper of record 202
Niles Weekly Register 38, 42, 202
Nike Corp. 188, 191
Noyce, Robert 281
Nuremburg Principles 89, 335
(Also see Social Responsibility)
Nuremburg Chronicles 110
OK Go (rock band) 323- 324
Ong, Walter 16
Oracle Corp. 290
Oral cultures 14 – 15
Orwell, George 269, 271, 282
Orwell’s 1984 (book) 269, 287
Parks, Gordon 130 – 131
Page, Larry 314
Paine, Thomas 34 , 40
Paper, sources of 18
Pasha, Bolo 83
Pearson, Drew 89
Penny press
- advertising 170
- Britain 56 – 59
- France 59 – 61
- Germany 61 – 62, 88
- United States 48 – 55
Pentagon Papers 95
Peter Porcupine – See William Cobbett
Phillips, David Graham 81
Photography
- celluloid film 125
- copyright of 122
- digital impacts 137
- environmental 133
- ethics 136 – 137
- F64 Group 124
- FSA 127
- halftone printing 125
- magazines 128
- muckraking 126
- invention of 117 – 118
- papparazi 137
- pictorialism 123
- straight 124
Political revolution and media
- American revolution 32
- Arab revolutions 333
- Berlin Wall, fall of 262, 290
- Communist (Russia) 85
- English civil war 31
- European 1848 61
- French revolution 35
- Glorious, 1688 (UK) 38
- India non-violent 87
- Nazi (Germany) 88
Postal Services (US, Europe)
- Support newspapers 37 – 38
- Print infrastructure 194
- Censorship WWI 81
- Telegraph 201, 204
Postman, Neil 113
Printing
- engraving 110
- Gutenberg 18 – 27
- laser printing 290
- life in a print shop 42-45
- lithography 111
- moveable type 18
- nation – state 27
- political impacts 26 – 42
- precursors of 17
- religious tolerance 24
- science 25 – 26
- significance of 13
- steam power 46
- technologies 98 – 100
- woodcut 18, 109
- world brotherhood 46
Prodigy (ISP) 303
Protestant Reformation
- Catholic censorship 21, 22, 28
- early European 21, 28 – 32
- Wycliffe, John 21
Protestant censorship 22 – 23
- Hus, Jan 21
Public Broadcasting Service
- educational radio 219
- established 257
- programs 258
Publick Occurrences 28, 32, 40
Public relations
- AT&T campaign 176
- cinema 156
- climate change 98
- Creel Committee 180 – 181
- crisis communication 184
- Edward Bernays 179
- muckraking 175
- Standard Oil (Exxon) 181
- WWII allegations 182
Pulitzer, Joseph 55, 61 – 65, 67
Pulitzer Prize 87, 90, 94, 98
Pyle, Ernie 89 – 90
Radio
- Biltmore agreement 225
- Fireside Chat 229
- Fed Radio Comm 219
- free press 228
- Golden age radio 222
- Hindenburg disaster 225
- Internet radio 236
- NAB Code 229
- radio DJs, Payola 233
- radio news 224, 225
- Radio Act 1912 216
- satellite radio 235
- talk radio 235
- War of the Worlds 227
- sense of culture 15
- Mayflower decision 229, 241
- Re-tribalization 15
- Phil. of regulation 228
Radio Corp. America (RCA)
- American Marconi 219
- NBC network 225
- television 240
Raymond, Henry 54 – 55
Recording Ind. Assn. Am. 322
Redstone, Sumner 270
Reed, John 86 -87
Reporters Without Borders 87, 315
Reuter, Paul 207
Reuters news service 207
Rheingold, Howard 311, 318 – 319, 328
Riefenstahl, Leni 154
RIAA – See Recording Industry
Riis, Jacob 115, 125
Rolling Stone (magazine) 271
Roosevelt, Theodore 78 – 80, 126, 175
Roosevelt, Franklin D 228 – 230
Roosevelt, Eleanor 242
Roots (book and film) 15
Rosenthal, Joe 132 – 133
Russell, William Howard 119, 202
Rwanda, genocide in 89, 114
Sagan, Carl 28, 98
Salgado, Sebastiao 126
Samizdats 21, 87
San Jose Mercury News 309
Santa Claus 51
Satellite communications
- anti-trust 265
- Direct broadcasting 264
- global tensions 263
- Sputnik 245
- Telstar 245
- Walesa, Lech 262
Sarnoff, David
- early days 219
- radio memo 182, 221, 241
- network law 316
Schramm, Wilbur 16, 335
Schurz, Carl 61, 62, 64
Scripps, Edward Willis
- newspaper chain 67 – 70
- United Press 205 – 206
- Science Service 68 – 70
Seldes, George 82 – 84
Sensationalism
- advertising 169
- British press 73
- British view of US 56
- Hearst, W.R. 65, 70 – 72
- New York Herald 52
- New York Sun 51
- Photography 136 – 137
- Scherlism (Germany) 62
- science news 69
- Vietnam 95
Shirkey, Clay 20, 138
Shirer, William L.
- Gandhi, Mahatma 88
- radio broadcasts 225, 230
Sinclair, Upton 5, 81, 175
Smith, W. Eugene 135
Social media
- Facebook 326
- MySpace 326
- Twitter 329
- Well, the (ISP) 318
Social responsibility
- cinema, Nazi 153 – 154
- FCC 232
- Hutchins Comm. 91 – 92
- images 113 – 115
- MacBride report 263, 335
- media reform 196
- Nazi press 89
- newspaper profits 103
- Public Broadcasting 257
- Rwanda press 89
- TV regulatory theory 261
- UK reformers 41
Spanish-American War 65, 72
Sputnik satellite 245
Stallman, Richard 319
Stanley, Henry Morton 57 – 58
Standard Oil
- Ida Tarbell 81
- public relations 98, 175, 181
- I.G. Farben 181
- US v Standard Oil 176
Stead, William
- gov’t by journalism 55
- Titanic disaster 56
- sensationalism 55
- cinema comparison 143
Steffens, Lincoln 78, 81
Stephens, Mitchell 1, 5, 113
Stead, William 58, 143
Steiglitz, Alfred 124
Steichen, Edward 124
Stewart, John 266
Strand, Paul 124
Streicher, Julius 89, 114
Stryker, Roy 130
Sun Microsystems 290
Swade, Doron 273
Tarbell, Ida 81
Taylor, Rob 299
Technology
- social construction 7, 195, 334
- determinism 7, 334
- cycles of technology 195 – 196
- McLuhan’s Tetrad 11, 142
- similarity 142
Ten Days that Shook World 86 – 87
Telecommunications Act 1996
- deregulation 261
- internet censorship 297, 311
- radio consolidation 234
- Reno v. ACLU 297, 311
- V-Chip 261
Telegraph
- AP – Western Union 194, 204
- influence on writing 202
- Morse, Samuel 198 – 201
- Morse code 199 – 200
- optical 197
- spread in Europe 201
- Thoreau, H.D. views 196, 202
- transatlantic cable 202
- UK nationalizes 214
- utopianism 196, 271
- Victorian Internet 197
- Wheatstone, Charles 199 – 201
Television
- advertising 258
- cable, satellite 264
- civil rights 253, 256
- educational TV 248
- internet impact 266
- Iron Curtain 262
- presidency 249 – 251
- quiz show scandals 246
- social responsibility 196
- Vietnam 95, 251 – 252
- WLBT case 254
Texas Instruments 280
Times of London (See London Times)
Titanic disaster 215
Thoreau, Henry David 196, 202
Thucydides (Greek historian) 3
Tomlinson, Ray 299
Thompson, Hunter S. 97
Trumbo, Dalton 157
Turing, Alan 272
Tyndale, William 26
Typesetting
- desktop publishing 101, 290
- Linotype 100, 289
- moveable type 18
- photomechanical 101, 290
- setting by hand 33 – 35, 99
Twain, Mark 62, 197
Twitter 329
United Nations
- Int’l Telegraph Union 201
- Int’l Standards Org. 137, 246
- MacBride Comm. 262, 335
UNESCO 335
United Press International 206
US v. Associated Press 206
US v. Loraine Journal 233
US v. Microsoft 233, 313
US v. NBC 232
US v. Paramount 149
Utopianism
- defined 8
- internet, web 270, 298
- print brotherhood 46
- radio v darkness 224
- telegraph 201
- television 238
Van Anda, Carr 70
Vespucci, Amerigo 25
Vietnam war
- adversarial press 94 – 95
- Dolchtoss 85, 251
Viewtron (See Knight-Ridder)
Villard, Henry 203
Visual communication
- Altamira caves 107 – 108
- human psyche 108
- woodblock printing 108
- religious icons 109, 167
- Rise of the Image 113
- stereotypes 115
- corporate images 115
- image advertising 165-166
Violence and media
- children 252, 253, 260
- French revolution 36
- McLuhan, Marshall 267
- Nazi Germany 89
- television 260
Volssische Zietung 88
Voltaire, Francois 30, 32
Waldseemuller, Martin 25
Walesa, Lech 262
Walter, John 39
Walter, John, II 46-48
Wales, Jimmy 327 – 328
War Advertising Council 182
War of the Worlds 226
Washington Post
- apps, use of 332
- computer typesetting 290
- Creel Committee 83
- publishing on web 305
Watergate 79, 95 – 96
Watergate scandal 79, 95 – 96
Wells, Herbert G.
- War of the Worlds 226
- vision of TV 239
- vision of Web 296
Wells, Ida B.(Baker-Barnett) 80
Wells, Orson
- Citizen Kane 72, 150
- War of the Worlds 226
- West, Mae 223
Western Union
- AP monopoly 194, 204 – 205
- Origin 201
Wheatstone, Charles 199 – 201
Whig history 4
Whigs and Tories 38 – 39
White, William Allen 78
Wilde, Oscar 40, 123
Wilkes, John 39
Wikileaks 334
Wikipedia 2, 317, 327
- origins 327
- printing comparison 26
Woodward, Bob 96
Wired magazine 272, 314
Wolfe, Tom 96 – 97
Wolff, Bernard 61, 207
World Wide Web (WWW)
- (Also see Internet)
- Apache server 320
- browser wars 312
- censorship 311
- generative tech 295
- Gopher (precursor) 301
- Internet Explorer 313
- Minitel 104, 201, 304
- Mosaic 294, 308
- Mozilla 320
- Netscape 291, 308, 312
- organized intelligence 75
- origin of 307
- Reno v ACLU 311
- search Engines 314
- visions of 272, 278, 296 – 297
Wozniak, Steve 210, 285
Xanadu ISP 307
Xerox Corp
- Apple Corp. 271, 286 – 288
- Ethernet 300
- PARC 286
- Yahoo 314, 316
Yellow journalism
- (Also see Sensationalism)
- Lippmann, Walter 74
- Hearst, W.R. 70 – 72
- Yellow Kid 65, 71
YouTube 162, 315
- OK Go (rock band) 323- 324
Zenger, John Peter 32 – 34
Zinn, Howard 25
Zittrain, Jonathan 297, 319, 322, 331
Zola, Emile 60
Zuckerberg, Mark 326
Zworykin, Vladimir 240