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Communication: Emergence, Evolution and its progression into Newspapers

Communication: Emergence, Evolution and its progression into Newspapers

Dr Vijay Bhaskar

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ISBN13: 9798897446735
Publisher: Notion Press
Published: Mar 10 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Humans are exclusively gifted by nature with some anatomical features that give humans an immense capacity to render complex speech. The book explores origin of speech right from the Hyoid bone that exalted human communication into a higher orbit, and then moves onto science and technology behind the development of communication, leading finally to the emergence of mass media, i.e., newspapers. It covers Gutenberg's marvelous machine which printed Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses, the first voice of dissent in the world against the most powerful Catholic Church. 17th century natural philosopher Francis Bacon recognized three great technological innovations: the magnetic compass, the printing press and gunpowder as the distinguishing achievements of modern man. The present book discusses in detail one of the epoch-making inventions: the printing press and its natural progression into newspapers, its impact on societies of the world, its struggle to align itself against the worst of maneuvers to silence the press in the different time spans of history. The first Indian newspaper Hicky's Gazette by James Augustus Hicky in 1780 and from there a 200-year span has been covered in detail, which comprises the following chapters:

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