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communications revolution  

Definition

  • Historians and social scientists have identified a series of communications revolutions associated with the advent, first, of writing; then, of printing; then, of electronic transmissions (telegraph and radio); and, most recently, of computers and the Internet. This entry will consider the communications revolution unleashed by the printing press. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Communications Revolution]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-X109TPVS-1

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