Messages : free expression, media and the West from Gutenberg to Google /

Winston, Brian.

Messages : free expression, media and the West from Gutenberg to Google / Brian Winston. - London : Routledge, 2005. - xii, 430 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Brian Winston offers a history of mass communication in Europe & its outreaches, not primarily as an account of repression & struggle but as a search for the origins of media forms, from print & stage to photography, film & broadcasting.

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Mass media--History.

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