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CMNS 302: Communication in History (Rev. 10) Report a Broken Link

Unit 1: Introduction—Technology and Society

Marshack, Alexander. 1976. “Some Implications of the Paleolithic Symbolic Evidence for the Origin of Language.” Current Anthropology 17 (2): 274–82.
Schmandt-Besserat, Denise. 1982. “How Writing Came About.” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 47 (January): 1–5.
Havelock, Eric. 1999. “The Greek Legacy.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 3rd ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Longman.
Ascher, Marcia. 1992. “Before the Conquest.” Mathematics Magazine 65 (4): 211–18.
Innis, Harold. 2007. “Media in Ancient Empires.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 5th ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Pearson.
Franklin, Ursula M. 2014. “Thinking about Technology.” In Ursula Franklin Speaks: Thoughts and Afterthoughts, edited by Ursula Franklin and Sarah Jane Freeman. McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Unit 2: Literacy and Orality—A Debate

Ong, Walter. 1999. “Orality, Literacy, and Modern Media.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 3rd ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Longman.
Finnegan, Ruth. 1988. “Polar Typologies.” In Literacy and Orality: Studies in the Technology of Communication. Basil Blackwell.
Bloch, Maurice. 1989. “Literacy and Enlightenment.” In Literacy and Society, edited by Karen Schousboe and Mogens Trolle Larsen. Akademisk Forlag.
Street, Brian V. 1984. “The ‘Autonomous’ Model: II Goody.” In Literacy in Theory and Practice. Cambridge University Press.
Neuliep, James. 1996. “The Systems-Interactional Approach.” In Human Communication Theory: Applications and Case Studies. Allyn Bacon.
Illich, Ivan, and Barry Sanders. 1998. “Text.” In The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind. Vintage.

Unit 3: Scribal Culture to Print

Burke, James. 2003. “Communication in the Middle Ages.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 4th ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Allyn Bacon.
Eco Umberto. 2003. “A Medieval Library.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 4th ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Allyn Bacon.
Wittmann, Reinhard. 2003. “Was There a Reading Revolution at the End of the Eighteenth Century?” In A History of Reading in the West, edited by Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier. Translated by Lydia Cochrane. University of Massachusetts Press.
García-Avilés, José A. 2020. “Diffusion of Innovation.” In The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology, edited by Jan Van den Bulck. Joyn Wiley & Sons.

Unit 4: The Wired and Wireless World

Snowden, Collette, and Kerry Green. 2007. “Media Reporting, Mobility and Trauma.” M/C Journal 10 (1).
MacDougall, Robert. 2006. “The Wire Devils: Pulp Thrillers, the Telephone, and Action at a Distance in the Wiring of a Nation.” American Quarterly 58 (3): 715–41.
Sawhney, Harmeet. 2003. “Wi-Fi Networks and the Rerun of the Cycle.” info 5 (6): 25–33.
Lacohée, Hazel, Nina Wakeford, and Ian Pearson. 2003. “A Social History of the Mobile Telephone with a View of Its Future.” BT Technology Journal 21 (3): 203–11.

Unit 5: Image Technologies and the Emergence of Mass Society

Williams, Rosalynd. 2007. “Dream Worlds of Consumption.” In Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society. 5th ed., edited by David Crowley and Paul Heyer. Pearson.
Fulford, Robert. 1968. “Introduction,” “The Greatest Show on Earth,” and “An Exultation of Form and Structure.” In This Was Expo. McClelland & Stewart.
Klaffke, Pamela. 2003. “Consumers and Consumerism.” In Spree: A Cultural History of Shopping. Arsenal Pulp Press.
Sontag, Susan. 1977. “In Plato’s Cave.” In On Photography. Delta Books.
“An Introduction to Early Cinema: Timeline.” EarlyCinema.com

Unit 6: Radio—The People’s Medium

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Lowery, Shearon, and Melvin L. DeFleur. 1983. “The Invasion from Mars: Radio Panics America.” In Milestones in Mass Communication Research: Media Effects. Longman.
Barboutis, Christos. 2013. “The Birth of Radio Broadcasting: The Matrix of Science, Technology and Communication in the Western World.” Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media 11 (2): 155–68.
MacLennan, Anne F. 2013. “Learning to Listen: Developing the Canadian Radio Audience in the 1930s.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 20 (2): 311–26.
Bosch, Tanya. 2006. “Radio as an Instrument of Protest: The History of Bush Radio.” Journal of Radio Studies 13 (2): 249–65.
Gwyn, Robert J. 1983. “Rural Radio in Bolivia: A Case Study.” Journal of Communication 33 (2): 79–87.

Unit 7: TV Times

Newcomb, Horace, and Paul M. Hirsch. 1983. “Television as a Cultural Forum: Implications for Research.” Quarterly Review of Film Studies 8 (3): 45–55.
McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. “Television: The Timid Giant.” In Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill.
Hall, R. Mark. 2003. “The ‘Oprahfication’ of Literacy: Reading ‘Oprah’s Book Club’.” College English 65 (6): 646–67.
Press, Andrea. 2009. “Gender and Family in Television’s Golden Age and Beyond.” The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 625 (1): 139–50.
Russell, Lynette, and Nathan Wolski. 2001. “Beyond the Final Frontier: Star Trek, the Borg and the Post-Colonial.” Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media 1 (Spring/Summer).

Unit 8: The Age of Information and Disinformation

Foucault, Michel. 1995. “Panopticism.” In Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage.
Brignall, Tom, III. 2002. “The New Panopticon: The Internet Viewed as a Structure of Social Control.” Theory & Science 3 (1).
Logan, Robert. 2022. “A View of the Internet from the Perspective of Harold Innis’s Bias of Communication.” New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication 2 (2): 80–86.
McLuhan, Marshall. 1964. “The Gadget Lover: Narcissus as Narcosis.” In Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. McGraw-Hill.

Unit 9: Social Media Connections

Manovich, Lev. 2018. “How Media Became New.” In Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media. 7th ed., edited by Paul Heyer and Peter Urquhart. Routledge.
Standage, Tom. 2018. “Social Media Retweets History.” In Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media. 7th ed., edited by Paul Heyer and Peter Urquhart. Routledge.
Tupper, Jennifer. 2014. “Social Media and the Idle No More Movement: Citizenship, Activism and Dissent in Canada.” Journal of Social Science Education 13 (4): 87–94.
Marwick, Alice E. 2018. “A Cultural History of Web 2.0.” In Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media. 7th ed., edited by Paul Heyer and Peter Urquhart. Routledge.
Bolter, Jay David, and Richard Grusin. 2018. “The World Wide Web.” In Communication in History: Stone Age Symbols to Social Media. 7th ed., edited by Paul Heyer and Peter Urquhart. Routledge.