The Body of the Ancestor and Other Stories. Social Sciences and the Distant Past of Communication

<span class="abs_content">The relationship between communication and society has been extensively studied in the 20th Century, following the dissemination of mass media announced already during the 19th Century (photog-raphy, cinema, comics, radio, telephone, etc.). However, communic...

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Autor principal:	Stefano Cristante
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2017
Materias:	prehistory history of communication sociology of culture political communication public opinion Political science (General) JA1-92
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:bce43abbdcdb407fa301ad68db726d9d2021-11-21T15:11:39ZThe Body of the Ancestor and Other Stories. Social Sciences and the Distant Past of Communication1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v10i2p636https://doaj.org/article/bce43abbdcdb407fa301ad68db726d9d2017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/17740https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The relationship between communication and society has been extensively studied in the 20th Century, following the dissemination of mass media announced already during the 19th Century (photog-raphy, cinema, comics, radio, telephone, etc.). However, communication has always been one of the key variables of the entire human history, and not only of modernity. Through a retrospective survey, the es-say analyses communication as an adaptive invention of mankind to the environment. A winning answer to the primordial struggles for survival, communication distinguishes the human species from earlier times for the structuring of a shared oral language. Starting from the extraordinary flexibility of the human body as a multi-media and multi-meaningful tool, the essay offers a communicative revisionism that involves the antiquity, the Middle Ages and modernity. Sharing the idea of "the media as human extension" (McLu-han), the author proposes some examples for a new reading of single tales of the Odyssey, i.e. the sirens' and the Cyclops' episode. Eventually, five directions are proposed to run for a wide-ranging investigation of the relationship "communication-society" in the past: invention of symbols, sharing of meanings, crea-tion of networks, construction of knowledge and exercise of power.</span><br />Stefano CristanteCoordinamento SIBAarticleprehistoryhistory of communicationsociology of culturepolitical communicationpublic opinionPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 636-655 (2017)
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description	<span class="abs_content">The relationship between communication and society has been extensively studied in the 20th Century, following the dissemination of mass media announced already during the 19th Century (photog-raphy, cinema, comics, radio, telephone, etc.). However, communication has always been one of the key variables of the entire human history, and not only of modernity. Through a retrospective survey, the es-say analyses communication as an adaptive invention of mankind to the environment. A winning answer to the primordial struggles for survival, communication distinguishes the human species from earlier times for the structuring of a shared oral language. Starting from the extraordinary flexibility of the human body as a multi-media and multi-meaningful tool, the essay offers a communicative revisionism that involves the antiquity, the Middle Ages and modernity. Sharing the idea of "the media as human extension" (McLu-han), the author proposes some examples for a new reading of single tales of the Odyssey, i.e. the sirens' and the Cyclops' episode. Eventually, five directions are proposed to run for a wide-ranging investigation of the relationship "communication-society" in the past: invention of symbols, sharing of meanings, crea-tion of networks, construction of knowledge and exercise of power.</span><br />
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