Dynamics of Modern Communication: The Shaping and Impact of New Communication Technologies

This book combines political economy with the sociology of innovation in a comprehensive social history of communication technology from 1790 to the present.

Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years. From the semaphore and telegraph to contemporary information technologies, through photography, the phonograph, the telephone, radio, cinema and television, the text focuses on the relationship b…