The Handbook of Communication History addresses central ideas, social practices, and media of communication as they have developed across time, cultures, and world geographical regions. It attends to both the varieties of communication in world history and the historical investigation of those forms in communication and media studies. The Handbook editors view communication as encompassing patterns, processes, and performances of social interaction, symbolic production, material exchange, institutional formation, social praxis, and discourse. As such, the history of communication cuts across social, cultural, intellectual, political, technological, institutional, and economic history.
The volume examines the history of communication history; the history of ideas of communication; the history of communication media; and the history of the field of communication. Readers will explore the history of the object under consideration (relevant practices, media, and ideas), review its manifestations in different regions and cultures (comparative dimensions), and orient toward current thinking and historical research on the topic (current state of the field). As a whole, the volume gathers disparate strands of communication history into one volume, offering an accessible and panoramic view of the development of communication over time and geographical places, and providing a catalyst to further work in communication history.
Contents
Sections:
Field
Modes
Media
Society
World
Contributors:
Karen Lee Ashcraft
Murali Balaji
Gabriele Balbi
Peter Burke
Richard Butsch
Guo-Ming Chen
Robert T. Craig
Letrell D. Crittenden
David Crowley
Nabil Echchabi
Andreas Fickers
Nathan Godfried
Michael Griffin
Paul Heyer
John P. Jackson, Jr.
Christian Kaden
Min-Sun Kim
Juraj Kittler
Gideon Kouts
Joan Leach
Donal P. McCracken
a Miyahara
Mette Mortensen
John Nerone
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
David W. Park
Benjamin Peters
Janice Peck
Jefferson D. Pooley
Pushkala Prasad
Susan Romano
Karen Ross
Josef Seethaler
Lucien Sfez
Peter Simonson
John Sinclair
Christopher H. Sterling
C. Jan Swearingen
Ruth E. Teer-Tomaselli
Ronald J. Zboray
Mary Saracino Zboray
Author Bio
Peter Simonson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Janice Peck is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UC Boulder.
Robert T. Craig is Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder.
John P. Jackson, Jr., is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Boulder.
