Parchment, Printing, and Hypermedia: Communication in World Order Transformation

Ronald J. Deibert

Part of the New Directions in World Politics series.
John Gerard Ruggie, General Editor

New York

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS

1997

Bibliographic data

Book Summary and Reviews

Preface

Introduction

1. Medium Theory, Ecological Holism, and the Study of World Order Transformation

Part 1. Printing and the Medieval to Modern World Order Transformation

2. From the Parchment Codex to the Printing Press: The Sacred Word and the Rise and Fall of Medieval Theocracy

3. Print and the Medieval to Modern World Order Transformation: Distributional Changes

4. Print and the Medieval to Modern World Order Transformation: Changes to Social Epistemology

Part 2. Hypermedia and the Modern to Postmodern World Order Transformation

5. Transformation in the Mode of Communication: The Emergence of the Hypermedia Environment

6. Hypermedia and the Modern to Postmodern World Order Transformation: Distributional Changes

7. Hypermedia and the Modern to Postmodern World Order Transformation: Changes to Social Epistemology

8. Conclusion