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Author Lacy, Dan, 1914-2001.

Title From grunts to gigabytes : communications and society / Dan Lacy
Published Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1996]
©1996

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Description xvii, 193 pages ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Words -- 2. Letters -- 3. Printing -- 4. The Flowering of Print -- 5. The Control of Print -- 6. Communications Policy in the Early American Republic -- 7. The Era of Print Dominance -- 8. The Technology of the Audiovisual Revolution -- 9. The Control of the Audiovisual Revolution -- 10. The Audiovisual Media and Society -- 11. The Coming of the Computer -- 12. Printed Media in the Audiovisual and Electronic Era -- 13. Now and into the Future
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-186) and index
Subject Communication policy -- History.
Communication -- History.
Communication -- Social aspects.
Communication -- Technological innovations.
LC no. 95032512
ISBN 0252022289 (cloth : acid-free paper)
025206531X (paperback: acid-free paper)