TY - BOOK AU - Briggs, Asa AU - Burke, Peter TI - Social history of the media : from Gutenberg to the internet SN - 0745635121 U1 - 741.6022 PY - 2005/// CY - Cambridge PB - Polity Press 2005 KW - N1 - CONTENTS List of Illustrations vi Preface viii 1 Introduction 1 2 The Print Revolution in Context 73 3 The Media and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Europe 4 From Steam to Electricity 88 5 Processes and Patterns 100 6 Information, Education, Entertainment 151 7 Convergence 276 8 Multimedia 254 Chronology 269 Further Reading 281 Index 295 ER -