%0 Book %1 innis1950empire %A Innis, Harold Adams %C Oxford %D 1950 %I Clarendon Press %K system %P 230 p. %T Empire and communications %X Empire and Communications is one of Innis's most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this foundational work, he traces humanity's movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the way, he presents his own influential concepts of oral communication, time and space bias, and monopolies of knowledge. %Z Classic text on the connection between communication styles and technologies and the development of the world system.

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