The technology of journalism : cultural agents, cultural icons / Patricia L. Dooley ; foreword by Neil Chase.
Material type: TextSeries: Visions of the American pressPublisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007Description: xviii, 250 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0810123304
- 9780810123304
- 070.40285 22
- PN4784.T34 D66 2007
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 070.40285 DOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A427519B |
"Medill School of Journalism.".
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Historical Antecedents -- 3. The Dynamics of Change -- 4. More and More News -- 5. Printers and Readers -- 6. Electrification -- 7. Visualizing the News -- 8. From Desktop to Digital -- 9. Press as Symbol -- 10. The Future of Printed News -- 201. Notes -- 209. Bibliography -- 231. Index.
Approaching journalism from a broad historical perspective, Patricia L. Dooley assesses the various technological developments that have done much to determine the course of journalism over the past three centuries. Dooley also speculates on what the future may hold for the principles and practice of journalism in a world of tomorrow, a world in which the influence of the Internet grows and rich new technologies emerge constantly.
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