Part 1 The media of early civilization; the art and symbols of Ice Age man; the earliest precursor of writing; media in ancient empires; civilization without writing - the Incas and the Quipu. Part 2 The tradition of western literacy; the consequences of literacy; the Greek legacy; reading and writing; communication in the Middle Ages. Part 3 The print revolution; paper and block printing - from China to Europe; the rise of the reading public; print, space, and closure; files, bureaucrats and intellectuals. Part 4 Electricity creates the wired world; lightning line; time, space, and the Telegraph; the new journalism; early uses of the telephone. Part 5 Image technologies and the emergence of mass society; dream worlds of consumption; photograpy transforms the visual arts; the graphic revolution; advertising, consumers, and culture. Part 6 Radio days; wireless world; broadcasting begins; documenting media; understanding radio. Part 7 TV Times; the new languages; television and society; television and working class culture; television transforms the news. Part 8 New media and old in the information age; the control revolution; newspapers in the computer age; the new psychotechnologies; computers, tools, and human reason.
