Required Book
Communication in History: Technology, Culture, Society (5th Edition), by David Crowley and Paul Heyer
Make sure you have the 5th edition, published in 2006.
Recommended Books
The UF libraries have most of these books.
- The Story of Writing, by Andrew Robinson. Thames & Hudson, 1999 (Amazon.com).
- A History of Writing, by Steven Roger Fischer. Reaktion Books, 2001 (Amazon.com).
- Writing: The Story of Alphabets and Scripts, by Georges Jean. Abrams, 1992 (Amazon.com).
- The Photograph, by Graham Clarke, 1997 (Amazon.com).
- A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet, 2nd ed., by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke. Polity Press, 2005 (Amazon.com).
- Media Technology and Society: A History / From the Telegraph to the Internet, by Brian Winston. Routledge, 1998 (Amazon.com).
- Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, by Tim Berners-Lee. Collins, 2000 (Amazon.com).
- Inventing the Internet, by Janet Abbate. MIT Press, 2000 (Amazon.com).