MSTU4016 08/Class Bibliography

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As part of the written requirements for MSTU4016, you should select oat least one of these books according to your interest and submit a reflective essays developing your ideas relevant to the work and key developments in the history of communication. The full list breaks down into topical sections, which roughly match the historical topics in the course.

Contents 1 Attempts at the big picture 2 Introduction of literacy into Greek oral culture 3 Dynamics of pre-print communication 4 Printing and its cultural effects 5 Communication, culture, and historical change 6 The Press and its history 7 The rise of broadcast media 8 Film and its cultural effects 9 New Media and its cultural effects 10 Interesting, but hard to categorize

[edit] Attempts at the big picture

• Beniger, James R. The Control Revolution : Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986.

• Deibert, Ronald. Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia : Communication in World Order Transformation. New Directions in World Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997.

• Innis, Harold Adams. The Bias of Communication. [Toronto]: University of Toronto Press, 1951.

• Manguel, Alberto. A History of Reading. 1st American ed. New York: Viking, 1996.

• McLuhan, Marshall, and W. Terrence Gordon. Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man. Critical ed. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, 2003.

• Mumford, Lewis. Technics and Civilization. New York,: Harcourt, 1963.

• Ong, Walter J. Orality and Literacy : The Technologizing of the Word. New Accents. New York: Methuen, 1982.

• Peters, John Durham. Speaking into the Air : A History of the Idea of Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

[edit] Introduction of literacy into Greek oral culture

• Goody, Jack. The Interface between the Written and the Oral. Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture, and the State. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

• Havelock, Eric Alfred. Preface to Plato. Cambridge,: Belknap Press, Harvard University Press, 1963.

• Olson, David R., and Nancy Torrance. Literacy and Orality. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

• Robb, Kevin. Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

• Snell, Bruno. The Discovery of the Mind. Oxford,: Blackwell, 1953.

• Yunis, Harvey. Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

[edit] Dynamics of pre-print communication

• Clanchy, M. T. From Memory to Written Record, England, 1066-1307. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979.

• Grafton, Anthony, and Megan Hale Williams. Christianity and the Transformation of the Book : Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.

• Saenger, Paul Henry. Space between Words : The Origins of Silent Reading. Figurae. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997.

• Yates, Frances Amelia. The Art of Memory. Chicago,: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

[edit] Printing and its cultural effects

• Altick, Richard D. The English Common Reader : A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900. 2nd ed. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998.

• Burke, Peter. The Art of Conversation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993.

• Cavallo, Guglielmo, Roger Chartier, and Lydia G. Cochrane. A History of Reading in the West. Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.

• Chartier, Roger. The Cultural Uses of Print in Early Modern France. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1987.

• Darnton, Robert, Daniel Roche, and New York Public Library. Revolution in Print : The Press in France, 1775-1800. Berkeley: University of California Press in collaboration with the New York Public Library, 1989.

• Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Press as an Agent of Change : Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

• Febvre, Lucien Paul Victor, and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book : The Impact of Printing 1450-1800. Foundations of History Library. [New ed. London: N.L.B., 1976.

• Grafton, Anthony, Ann Blair, and Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. The Transmission of Culture in Early Modern Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990.

• Johns, Adrian. The Nature of the Book : Print and Knowledge in the Making. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1998.

• Melton, James Van Horn. The Rise of the Public in Enlightenment Europe. New Approaches to European History 22. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

[edit] Communication, culture, and historical change

• Carey, James W. Communication as Culture : Essays on Media and Society. Media and Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.

• Cross, Gary S. Time and Money : The Making of Consumer Culture. London ; New York: Routledge, 1993.

• Marvin, Carolyn. When Old Technologies Were New : Thinking About Electric Communication in the Late Nineteenth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

• Mattelart, Armand. The Invention of Communication. Minneapolis, Minn.: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

• Rabinbach, Anson. The Human Motor : Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity. New York: BasicBooks, 1990.

• Richards, Jeffrey, and John M. MacKenzie. The Railway Station : A Social History. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

• Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Railway Journey : The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986.

• Winner, Langdon. Autonomous Technology : Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977.

[edit] The Press and its history

• Levy, Leonard W. Emergence of a Free Press. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2004.

• Schudson, Michael. Discovering the News : A Social History of American Newspapers. New York: Basic Books, 1978.

• ---. The Sociology of News. Contemporary Societies. New York: Norton, 2003.

[edit] The rise of broadcast media

• Barnouw, Erik. Tube of Plenty : The Evolution of American Television. Rev. ed. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

• Benjamin, Walter, et al. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.

• Cook, Timothy E. Governing with the News : The News Media as a Political Institution. Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion. 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

• Czitrom, Daniel J. Media and the American Mind : From Morse to Mcluhan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1982.

• Douglas, Susan J. Inventing American Broadcasting, 1899-1922. Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology [New Ser., No. 9]. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

• Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. 1st Illinois pbk. ed. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

• Meyrowitz, Joshua. No Sense of Place : The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

• Smulyan, Susan. Selling Radio : The Commercialization of American Broadcasting, 1920-1934. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

• Starr, Paul. The Creation of the Media : Political Origins of Modern Communications. New York: Basic Books, 2004.

• Thompson, John B. The Media and Modernity : A Social Theory of the Media. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univeristy Press, 1995.

[edit] Film and its cultural effects

• Deleuze, Gilles. Cinema. 2 vols. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1986.

• Kracauer, Siegfried, and Leonardo Quaresima. From Caligari to Hitler : A Psychological History of the German Film. Rev. and expanded ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.

[edit] New Media and its cultural effects

• Manovich, Lev. The Language of New Media. Leonardo. 1st MIT Press pbk. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2002.

• Pool, Ithiel de Sola. Technologies of Freedom. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1983.

• Schiller, Herbert I. Mass Communications and American Empire. Critical Studies in Communication and in the Cultural Industries. 2nd ed. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

• Simpson, Lorenzo Charles. Technology, Time, and the Conversations of Modernity. New York: Routledge, 1995.

• Smith, Anthony. The Geopolitics of Information : How Western Culture Dominates the World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

[edit] Interesting, but hard to categorize

• Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda; the Formation of Men's Attitudes. [1st American ed.] New York,: Knopf, 1965.

• Elsner, Jas, and Joan-Pau Rubiés. Voyages and Visions : Towards a Cultural History of Travel. Critical Views. London: Reaktion Books, 1999.

• Fritzsche, Peter. Reading Berlin 1900. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

• Giedion, S. Mechanization Takes Command, a Contribution to Anonymous History. New York,: Oxford Univ. Press, 1948.

• Jay, Martin. Downcast Eyes : The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

• Judd, Dennis R., and Susan S. Fainstein. The Tourist City. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.

• Kern, Stephen. The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983.

• Kittler, Friedrich A. Discourse Networks 1800/1900. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

• ---. Gramophone, Film, Typewriter. Writing Science. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999.

• Landes, David S. Revolution in Time : Clocks and the Making of the Modern World. Rev. and enl. ed. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.

• Wilson, Frank R. The Hand : How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 1998.