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Medienrevolutionen und andere Revolutionen

Author(s): Schüttpelz, Erhard

Abstract

Our media have always been built along the parameters and the material framework for the objectives of our longue durée societies. And the assumptions and parameters of the overall patterns of our organizational activities have been projected onto the structures of media in their making. The same structuring of various media by the forms of human association is also true of the lives of preliterate man. The difference is that in our literate societies, from Gutenberg to Marconi and from Sumerian tokens to the Internet, all media technologies have been highly determined by the organization and interoperability of primary and secondary sector infrastructures, and couldn't exist without them. The generally acknowledged Media Revolutions in the history of mankind - the inventions of writing, of print, and of modern media – were ‹third steps› after upheavals in primary and secondary sector infrastructures.

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Schüttpelz, Erhard: Medienrevolutionen und andere Revolutionen. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 9 (2017), Nr. 2, S. 147-161. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/2261.
@ARTICLE{Schüttpelz2017,
 author = {Schüttpelz, Erhard},
 title = {Medienrevolutionen und andere Revolutionen},
 year = 2017,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/2261},
 volume = 9,
 address = {Bielefeld},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 2,
 pages = {147--161},
}
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