Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age by Bill Kovarik, Bloomsbury Academic

by Bill Kovarik

Revolutions in Communication offers a new approach to media history, presenting an encyclopedic look at the way technological change has linked social and ideological communities. Using key figures in history to benchmark the chronology of technical innovation, Kovarik's exhaustive scholarship narra ...

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[meilyn *ೃ༄ · Rating 4 out of 5]

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4.5/5 stars

I really enjoyed Revolutions in Communication: Media History from Gutenberg to the Digital Age by Bill Kovarik for my Media History course—it’s one of the rare textbooks that actually held my interest. The sections on contributors to modern photography and cinema were my favorite, especially the cinema portion, which felt engaging and thoughtfully explained. The internet chapter was the hardest for me to fully grasp (definitely not my forte), but I still appreciated how ambitious it was in scope. I’m especially curious to see what Kovarik changes in the upcoming edition, since some sections already feel slightly outdated or no longer factual, and I wonder whether updating them might risk losing some of what makes this textbook so strong. Overall, a really solid and rewarding read.

[Tom Delor]

I read this for a course prep (it's a fairly straightforward textbook), but I was stunned by just how dramatically things have changed since it's publishing. companies like Vice and Vine that Kovarik holds up as reasons for hope about the future of media are dead, Twitter is not a place known as uncontroversial on the corporate level and as a community of generosity on the user level, RFK Jr is not a leading liberal figure, and Facebook played an active role in dismantling our democracy rather than acted as a voice to promote it, and so on and so on. that's the nature of these revolutions though. for every prophetic vision of the future of technology, there are a thousand curves in the road that nobody saw coming

[Sam Richardson]

Really nice format for a textbook. The format made the textbook readable.

[addie beck · Rating 3 out of 5]

mass media history textbook lol. lowkey interesting!!