Great Convergence: Integrating Media, Information and Communication

Author: Stevenson MacWhortle Thomas Baldwin Charles Steinfield
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Publish Date: 2000-01-01
Features: We know that human communication activities are as ancient as human history, and human society is built on the foundation of people interacting using symbols. Since the beginning of human communication, the attention and reflection on communication phenomena have never ceased. The earliest communication studies can be traced back to ancient Greece and China's Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. To this day, we can still find insightful conclusions about communication phenomena in works like Rhetoric or the Analects.