Harold Innis

There are different ways of expressing the interesting implications of this fact. Harold Innis, the father of modern communication studies, repeatedly spoke of the “knowledge monopolies” created by important technologies. He meant precisely what Thamus had in mind: those who have control over the workings of a particular technology accumulate…

elites. This form of communicating was meant for everyone to learn and hopefully one day passed down to be taught or to evolve. “Writing was the first human communication revolution, but confined to social elites. Historians and media theorist Harold Innis argued that the combination of writing and flexible communications made it possible to build empires"(Kovarik, p.16). With that being said, this is implying if the writing wasn't gradually taken away from social elites than it would be a…

In an age where various forms of media play an undeniably crucial role in the dissemination of information to citizens, it was the philosophical prophecies of Marshall McLuhan that prove to still be pertinent in today’s use of media. The present usage of such terms as “media”, “global village” as well as “Age of Information” were all coined by Marshall McLuhan in his 1965 work Understanding Media (Lapham, x). In the information age we currently live in, McLuhan’s contributions to media and…