Harold Innis's Final Course

William Thomas (Tom) Easterbrook

ISBN 10: 1636679609 / ISBN 13: 9781636679600

Published by Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2025, 2025

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This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -In 1952, a terminally ill Harold Innis asked his closest intellectual confidant, Tom Easterbrook, to teach his signature course on communications on his behalf. With Innis's premature death, the course turned out to be both Innis's final course and the first course on Innis.Alongside Edward Comor's detailed Introduction, Easterbrook's previously unknown lectures clarify aspects of Innisian scholarship that have been obscured, neglected, or forgotten. These include Easterbrook's understanding that Innis applied his concept of bias more broadly than most realize, that through references to media Innis strategically sought to promote certain values, and that Innis had become increasingly interested in the role played by institutions such as language, law, and the nation.Given Easterbrook's intimate understanding of Innis's methodology and research trajectories, this book is a rich resource for anyone interested in Innis and the foundations of media ecology.'Edward Comor's book is like a time machine that takes us on a trip to 1950s-era University of Toronto and to the final days of the late, great Harold Innis. It provides an intimate and detailed window into the research and teaching of a scholar widely considered to be a pioneer in the field of media ecology. This book is highly recommended and an essential read for all of those interested in the history of communications technology.'Ron Deibert, Professor of Political Science and Director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab'Before his untimely death in 1952, Harold Innis wrote some of the most important works in communications studies in North America. In addition to his published scholarship, Innis presented his ideas to undergraduates at the University of Toronto through a course that his former PhD student Tom Easterbrook took over when his health failed. By assembling and contextualizing course materials and by drawing from conversations between Innis and Easterbrook during the preceding summer, Edward Comor gives scholars a fascinating window into Innis's pedagogical approach, his end-of-life concerns, as well as what for Innis remained unfinished. Through Comor's extensive introduction and the publication of Easterbrook's lectures for the course, readers also will gain understanding as to how Innis communicated his ideas and how he was interpreted by students - both those in the class and Easterbrook.'Michael Stamm, Chair and Professor, Department of History, Michigan State UniversityLang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 232 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Harold Innis's Final Course
• Publisher: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636679609
• ISBN 13: 9781636679600
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 13D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 343 grams

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Synopsis

This book centers on previously unknown lectures that W.T. (Tom) Easterbrook prepared for Harold Innis’s final course. With a detailed introduction, this book presents a unique reading of Innis’s concepts, methodology, and research trajectories, providing a rich resource for readers interested in Innis, communications studies, and media ecology.

About the Author

Edward A. Comor is Professor of Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is the co-editor of Harold Innis’s Political Economy in the Modern State. His other publications include The Global Political Economy of Communication; Communication, Commerce and Power; Consumption and the Globalization Project; and Media, Structures, and Power.