The Bias of Communication¶
Innis, H. A. (1951). The Bias of Communication. University of Toronto Press.
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- Media Ecology
- Innis's earlier formulation, the bias of communication, pointed to how dominant media in historical societies created systematic biases toward either spatial extension (space-bias: reach across territory) or temporal persistence (time-bias: transmission across generations), and that the dominant bias shaped empire, religion, law, and culture accordingly
This sourceInnis's argument that a dominant medium's fitness for carrying knowledge across space or through time biases a civilization, shaping its empire, religion and law.
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- Innis's earlier formulation, the bias of communication, pointed to how dominant media in historical societies created systematic biases toward either spatial extension (space-bias: reach across territory) or temporal persistence (time-bias: transmission across generations), and that the dominant bias shaped empire, religion, law, and culture accordingly
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