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Parchment, printing, and hypermedia : communication in world order transformation / Ronald J. Deibert.

By: Deibert, Ronald J.
Series: New directions in world politics. Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c1997Description: xi, 329 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0231107137 (pbk.).Subject(s): Communication -- Technological innovations -- History | Civilization -- History | Communication and culture -- HistoryDDC classification: 302.2
Contents:
1. Medium theory, ecological holism, and the study of world order transformation -- Part 1: Printing and the medieval to modern world order transformation - 2. From the parchment codex to the printing press: the sacred word and the rise and fall of medieval theocracy - 3. Print and the medieval to modern world order transformation: distributional changes - 4. Print and the medieval to modern world order transformation: changes to social epistemology -- Part 2: Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation - 5. Transformation in the mode of communication: the emergence of the hypermedia environment - 6. Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation: distributional changes - 7. Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation: changes to social epistemology - 8. Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-314) and index.

1. Medium theory, ecological holism, and the study of world order transformation -- Part 1: Printing and the medieval to modern world order transformation - 2. From the parchment codex to the printing press: the sacred word and the rise and fall of medieval theocracy - 3. Print and the medieval to modern world order transformation: distributional changes - 4. Print and the medieval to modern world order transformation: changes to social epistemology -- Part 2: Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation - 5. Transformation in the mode of communication: the emergence of the hypermedia environment - 6. Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation: distributional changes - 7. Hypermedia and the modern to postmodern world order transformation: changes to social epistemology - 8. Conclusion.