Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly · 1998 · 26 citations · 0 references
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Today's “communications revolution” is compared to two previous “communications revolutions”: the invention and development of writing and the invention and development of the letter press. Their histories can provide a number of lessons from which we can better understand our age of television, computers, and the Internet.