Towns and Communication
Communication in Towns
Neven Budak
Eliassen Finn-Einar
9781935603030
308 pages
University of Akron Press
Overview
The advent of email and texting has dramatically changed the way we communicate. In essence, we have lost touch in our dealings with each other. This change may have been speeded by newer technologies, but telegraphs and telephones had a great impact in our perceptions of time and place. Before mass communication, the way we ordered and embedded knowledge and the possibilities of social interaction were defined by the extended human experience of living in towns. Can this experience be replicated with new technologies? The topics discussed include Lines of Communication in Medieval Dublin, Places of Power: The Spreading of Official Information and the Social Uses of Space in Fifteenth-Century Paris, Ferry Services and Social Life in Early Modern Norwegian Towns, Harbor, Rail and Telegraph: The Post Office and Communication in Nineteenth-Century Dublin, The Tramway and the Urban Development of Zagreb in the Period of Modernization, and Migrant Development of Communication Space in Sydney.
Author Bio
Neven Budak is a member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb. Finn-Einar Eliassen is professor of history at Vestfold University College, Norway. Katalin Szende is associate professor in the Department of Medieval Studies at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
