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.