A History of Communications

Abstract

A History of Communications advances a theory of media that explains the origins and impact of different forms of communication - speech, writing, print, electronic devices and the Internet - on human history in the long term. New media are 'pulled' into widespread use by broad historical trends and these media, once in widespread use, 'push' social institutions and beliefs in predictable directions. This view allows us to see for the first time what is truly new about the Internet, what is not, and where it is taking us.

New Media as an Increasingly Adopted News Dissemination Avenue amid Declining Print Newspaper in Kenya

“…Print media faced threats from radio, and then television came along and threatened both print newspaper and radio with extinction. Nevertheless, older media still survived (Poe, 2011). Dominick (2005), Odun and Utulu (2016) and Shivarudrappa (2014) note that existing media will in no way be exterminated or replaced by new technologies while Alejandro (2010) observes that upheavals witnessed in media industries as a result of advancements in communication technologies should not be seen as dangerous; instead, new media is there to complement traditional media.…”

“…All the above websites are also conduits for advertisements. The move to online journalism by Theoretical Framework 1) The Push Theory of Media Effects and newspaper decline in Kenya A Pertinent theory that explains the use and spread of new media is the Push Theory of Media Effects as propounded by Poe (2011) and based on the works of Harold Allen Innis on communication history.…”

“…In his own words, an editor, "No, it won't die because it still commands a lot of respect and trust in the face of unverified and fake news." Likewise, Poe (2011), Odun and Utulu (2016) and Shivarudrappa (2014) state that the arrival of new technology never affected the relevance of existing media. A journalist also mentioned that government departments and some private firms still get supplied copies of print newspaper daily.…”

La lectura digital: perspectiva transhistórica y cognitiva

“…Pero será posteriormente la televisión la que marque el nacimiento del homo videns (Sartori, 2002;Poe, 2010), caracterizado por privilegiar el sentido de la vista como medio de formación e información y que tiene como principal fuente de aprendizaje la televisión. En una época en la que el tiempo libre es limitado y las opciones de ocio casi ilimitadas, se producen más libros pero disminuye la población lectora.…”

Recent Advances in Culturomics

“…Here, for example, the evolution of writing becomes the evolution of specifically Mesopotamian writing, and is presented not as a creative solution to a problem of emerging social relations, independently solved on different continents, 25 but basically as a mental improvement over not writing. Distin is coy about her memes, though, shying away from the term.…”