ACOM 2271 - Publishing - Origins to Today

(3 credits) 3 hours lecture

This course is designed to provide publishing specialists with an historic context for the forms, markets, and media they are working in. The course surveys how information has been circulated and published in human societies. It examines the earliest recorded information, historic techniques of reproduction and distribution, how the book emerged and how new electronic forms of publishing are both a continuance of tradition and a challenge to it.