A CHRONOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA THEORIES, EVENTS, AND CONRTRIBUTORS. 3.0.

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

I. ARCHAEOLOGY, PRE-/PROTO-HISTORY: Pheimei- and Phonocentric cultures.
1. Ricorso (once again, anew): On the somatic origins’ return; change, continuity, and value of knowledge

2. Material culture: crafts, skills, intelligence, strategy and arts (tools, fabrics, vessels, weapons and ornaments)

3. The social chronotope: Time-space apprehension and management

4. Gesture, proxemics & communication; body images and languages

5. Intention and expression; perception and interpretation

6. Acoustic space and oral cultures

7. Shamanism, word (goeteia)- and atmospheric/situational-magic: “special effects” in animate worlds.

8. Ritual and social communication

9. Tribe, clan, and beyond: trade, raiding, and learning: sedentism.

10. Invention of writing systems: Characteristics and comparative histories of writing systems: From cuneiform to papyrus and hieroglyphics, and the alphabet.

11. Command, hierarchy, and organization
- Warfare and empire
- Mail: the mobile command

12. Civilization, empire, and media
- Fertile Crescent
- Sumer
- Akkad
- Egypt
- Indus Valley
- Yellow River
- Persia
- Astronomy & calendars
- Mathematics
- Social organization
- Diplomacy

II. GREEK LEGACY and AXIAL AGE
13. Myth:
- Poetry (from the Greek ποίησις, poiesis, "making" or "creating")
- Myths of communication and knowledge: Hermes & Iris, Cadmus and Athena
- Homer (c. 700/other sources give 900? BCE)
- Hesiod (c. 700 BCE)
- Euhemerus (Ευήμερος) (working late fourth century BCE)

14. The alphabet & spread of primary literacy; visual space
- Julian Jaynes *
- Jack Goody *

15. Orality and literacy, the emergence of democracy and the city state
- Solon (ca. 638 BC–558 BC)
- Cleisthenes (fl 500 BC)
- Themistocles (c. 524–459 BC)
- Pericles or Perikles (c. 495–429 BC)
- Aspasia (c. 470 BC – c. 400 BC)
- Demosthenes (384 –322 BC)

16. Rhetoric
- Empedocles (Greek: Εμπεδοκλής, circa 490 BCE – c. 430 BCE)
- Isocrates (436–338 BCE)
- Jeffery Walker*
- Thomas Cole *

17. Heralds & healers
- Asclepius’ serpent and the semeion
- Hippocrates of Cos II or Hippokrates of Kos (c. 460 BCE — c. 370 BCE)

History
- Five Ages
- Herodotus (5th century BCE; 484 BC - ca. 425 BCE)
- Thucydides (between 460 and 455 BC–c. 400 BCE)
- Athens
- Alexandria
- After Alexander: Hellenism
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18. Sophists and the Paideia
- Gorgias (Greek: Γοργίας, circa 483-375 BC)
- Isocrates (436–338 BC)
- Werner Wilhelm Jaeger (1888 - 1961)

19. Philosophy
- Socrates (470 BCE-399 BCE)
- Plato (ca. 427-347 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BC-322 BCE) Topoi
- Plotinus (Greek: Πλωτῖνος) (ca. 205–270)

20. III. ROMAN LEGACY
- Rhetoric, making and letters
- Quintilian (35 - 95)
- Cicero (106–43 CE)
- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born ca. 80/70 BC?; died ca. 25 BC)
- Justinian’s Corpus Juris Civilis (534)

21. Ars Memoria: Mnemonic technique
- Simonides of Ceos (ca. 556 BCE - 469 BCE)
- Rhetorica ad Herennium ca. 85 BCE
- Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

22. Roman History and Law
- Sallustius Crispus, AKA Sallust, (86-34 BCE)
- Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus), (23–79 CE)
- Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c. 56 – c. 117)
- Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; c. 46- 127)
- Pausanias (Greek: Παυσανίας); 2nd century AD)
- Decline


IV. MEDIEVAL EUROPE and NEAR EAST
24. Light off the page: Culture of the book:
- Hildegard of Bingen - alternatively, in German as, von Bingen, in Latin as, Bingensis, also known as, Blessed Hildegard and Saint Hildegard, (1098 – 1179)
- Maimonides (1135 or 1138 - 1204)
- Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274)
- Dante; Durante degli Alighieri (c. 1265 – 1321)

25. Minstrels and troubadours

26. Block prints, heraldry, codex, and cathedrals

27. The clock and lens
- Lewis Mumford *

28. Arabic learning & letters, Persian poetry

29. “The Middle Ages,” Geopolitics of faith, Crusades, trade, and war




V. RENAISSANCE
30. Humanist philology, memory and the reinvention of Classical Antiquity

31. Memory, erotic magic, and new arts of persuasion
- Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480 - 1544)
- Giordano Bruno (1548–1600)
- Dame Frances Amelia Yates DBE (1899–1981)
- Opera, and new music
- Sculpture and the arts
- Ioan Couliano *

32. Communication, strategy, and arts politic
- Nicollo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
- Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), The Courtier
- Erasmus (c. 1469 – 1563)
- Robert Greene *

33. Perspective and print: New ways of seeing
- Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446)
- Lorenzo Ghiberti (born Lorenzo di Bartolo) (1378 – 1455)
- Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg (c. 1398 – c. 1468)
- Leone Battista Alberti (1404 – 1472)
- Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528)

36. New worlds: dawn of The Age Of Discovery
- Cartography
- Scientific revolution
- Compass


VI. REFORMATION & AGE OF RELIGIOUS DISCORD
34. The Reformation: Print and polemics
- Martin Luther (1483 – 1546)
- Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio ( López de Loyola (1491 – 1556)
- John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564)
- Counter Reformation, Council of Trent, the Baroque
- Elizabeth Eisenstein

35. Gunpowder, new weapons and arts of violence


VII. THE EARLY MODERN AGE: ENLIGHTENMENT & REVOLUTION
23. Reading publics: Women, , and the nation-state
- Benedict Anderson

24. French Enlightenment: Reading, reasoning, writing –
- Denis Diderot (1713 - 1783)
- Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- de Condorcet (1743 - 1794)
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Paul Heyer *

25. European expansion: exploitation, exo-anthropology and archaeology; relativism
- Colonialism and imperialism
- Chandra Mukerjee *

26. Dominance of empirical science and experimental method
- Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Rene Descartes (1596 – 1650)
- William Leiss (1939 - )

27. Metaphor and history: Imagination and Ricorso
- Giambattista Vico (1668–1744)

28. The Counter-Enlightenment and Romanticism
- Johann Georg Hamann (1730 - 1788)
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743 - 1819)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (1749 – 1832)
- Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)

29. Scottish Enlightenment: Civic society and public agonistics: Birth of the press
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
- John Locke (1632-1704)
- David Hume (1711 – 1776)
- Freedom of speech and the press

30. Industrial Revolution
- Sigfried Gideon (1888-1968)
- Witold Rybczynski *
- Adrian Forty *

31. Political revolutions: France and the American Colonies
- Reign of Terror
- The American Constitution
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VIII. MODERNITY
32. New media, time and space
- Stephen Kern *
- Alan Megill *

33. Positivism, circulation and statistical science
- Claude Henri de Rouvroy, comte de Saint-Simon (1760-1825)
- August Comte (1798 – 1857)
- Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874)

34. Expression in animals and humans: Discovery of selection; ethology
- Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
- Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821– 1894)

35. Computers born
- Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662)
- Charles Babbage (1791 – 1871)
- Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752–7 – 1834)
- Augusta Ada King (nee Byron), Countess of Lovelace (1815 – 1852)

36. Photography
- Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, also spelled Niepce (1765 – 1833)
- William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 – 1877)
- Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre (1787 – 1851)
- Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904)
- Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901)
- Zeiss Ikon
- Man Ray (1890 – 1976)
- Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (Александр Михайлович Родченко), 1891 – 1956)
- John Heartfield [Helmut Herzfeld.], (1891 – 1968)
- László Moholy-Nagy (1895 – 1946)
- Weegee (1899 - 1968)
- Brassaï was the pseudonym of Gyula Halász (1899-1984)
- Kodak, Brownie, 1900
- Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (1902 – 2003)
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 – 2004)
- Yousuf Karsh, CC (1908 – 2002)
- Richard Avedon (1923 – 2004)
- Leica, 1925
- Group f/64 (USA, 1932)
- Robert Capa (1913 – 1954)
- Diane Arbus (1923 – 1971)
- Susan Sontag (1933 – 2004) *
- Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 – 1989)
- Jeff Wall (born 1946 – )
- Hasselblad, 1948
- Victor Burgin (1941 – )

37. Social psychology and the management of crowds
- Mass society
- Gustave Le Bon (1841–1931)
- Gabriel Tarde (1843-1904), imitation
- Elias Canetti (1905-1994)*
- Serge Moscovici (1925 - )*
- The public sphere
- Charisma
- The Wisdom of Crowds


38. Capitalism, political economy, alienation, ideology and fetishism
- Adam Smith (1723-1790)
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)
- Karl Marx (1818-1883)
- Colonialism


39. German philosophy:
- Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
- Georg Hegel (1770-1831)
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
- Franz Clemens Honoratus Hermann Brentano (1838– 1917)
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
- Edmund Husserl (1859-1938)
- Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)

40. Spiritualism, magic, and the electronic media
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim
- Erik Davis *
- Randall Styers *

41. German social science: community, society, rationalization and the work ethic
- Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), Voluntarism
- Georg Simmel (1858-1918)
- Max Weber (1864-1920), charisma

42. French social science & thought: social facts, anomie, habitus and gift exchanges, experience of vitality and time.
- Émile Durkheim (1858-1917), social facts, anomie
- Henri Bergson (1859 – 1941), duree
- Marcel Mauss (1872 - 1950), habitus, gift exchanges

43. Abusive and pathological/criminal communication
- Shunning
- Coercive persuasion
- Mobbing
- Racism
- Rape
- Relational aggression
- Sexual harassment
- Workplace bullying
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44. Media, social movements and revolutions

45. European Hegemony
- China, silk, the Silk Road and opium wars
- Japan
- India, cotton
- Slave trade

46. European advertising: Chromolithography and tradition of European posters
- Jules Chéret (1836 – 1932)
- Alphonse Maria Mucha (1860 – 1939)
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa (1864 – 1901)
- William H. Bradley (1868 - 1962)
- Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966)
- Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942)
- Hans Rudi Erdt (1883 -1918)
- Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901 – 1968)

47. American advertising
- Roland Marchand *
- William Leiss, S Kline and S Jhally *
- Michael Schudson *
- Tony Schwartz *

48. Fashion
- Fashion and social process
- Beauty and attractiveness
- Clothing
- Body
- Cosmeisis
- Ornament and jewelry
- Fragrance


49. Imitation and the publics: Mass media as contagion
- Gabriel Tarde (1843–1904)

50. Mass education, telecommunication, moral panic over the telegraph
- Telegraph
- Moral panic

51. Inventing the inventor:
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931)
- Alexander Graham Bell (1847 – 1922)[
- Nikola Tesla (Serbian: Никола Тесла) (1856 -1943)

52. Music:
- Tin Pan Alley and the music biz
- Motown and Sun Records
- Jacques Attali *
- Eisenberg *

53. Ideologies, writ large
- Conservatism
- Progressivism

54. News agencies, the Yellow Press
- Tabloids & yellow journalism
- Reuters
- Associated Press


55. Ricorso, myth:
- James Frazer (1854-1941), The Golden Bough
- Jane Ellen Harrison (1850 – 1928), Themis: A Study of the Social Origins of Greek Religion, Ancient Art and Ritual, Bryn Mawr review; Cambridge Ritualists.
- Margaret Alice Murray (1863 - 1963)
- Major FitzRoy Richard Somerset, 4th Baron Raglan (1885–1964) and hero myths.
- Robert Graves (1895-1985). The White Goddess
- Karl (Carl, Károly) Kerényi (1897 - 1973)
- Georges Dumézil (1898 – 1986)
- Mircea Eliade (1907-1986), The Eternal Return
- Joseph E Campbell (1904-1987), The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- Herman Northrop Frye (1912 – 1991), Anatomy of Criticism
- Walter Burkert (1931 - )
- Richard Segal *

56. Playback of “voices” from out of the past
- Herculaneum (1738), and Pompeii (1748) “rediscovered”
- Jean-François Champollion (1790 –1832), the Rosetta Stone
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822– 1890), Troy
- Sir Arthur John Evans (1851 – 1941), Minoan civilization
- Howard Carter (1874 – 1939), King Tut
- Vere Gordon Childe (1892 – 1957), the Neolithic Revolution

57. Style as medium: Revivals and Revolutions
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852)
- John Ruskin (February 8, 1819 – January 20, 1900)


58. Symbol, myth and the political
- Georges Eugène Sorel (1847 - 1922)
- Eric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, (1901– 1985)


59. Discovery of the unconscious and depth psychology
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)
- Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961)

60. Libraries, access and censorship
- Great Books and Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902 – 2001)
- The "Scopes Trial" (Scopes v. State, 152 Tenn. 424, 278 S.W. 57 (Tenn. 1925),


61. A scalpel, well-inked
- George Cruikshank (1792-1878)
- Grandville, Jean Gerard (1803-1847)
- Honoré Daumier (1808-1879)
- Thomas Nast (1840 – 1902)
- George Grosz (July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959)
- Al Hirschfeld (1903 – 2003)

62. Enter Avant Garde/s (stage Left)
- Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский) (1866 – 1944)
- Cubism
- Surrealism
- De Stijl
- Futurism
- Russian Constructivism
- Dada


63. Mass production and scientific management
- Henry Ford (1863 – 1947)
- Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856 - 1915)

64. Behaviorism
- John B Watson (1878-1958)

65. American Industrial Design
- Raymond Loewy (1893 - 1986)
- Norman Bel Geddes (1893 - 1958)
- Henry Dreyfuss (1904 – 1972)


IX. WW I (The Great War)
66. Modernism and the Great War
- The Great War
- Modris Eksteins *

67. Communication and human ecology: Chicago School & Pragmaticism
- Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
- William James (1842 – 1910)
- John Dewey (1859–1952), 'I' and the 'me' & “generalized Other”
- George Herbert Mead (1863 –1931)
- Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929)
- Robert Ezra Park (1864–1944)
- Thomas Seobok *
- John Durham Peters *
- Daniel Czitrom *

68. Russian Formalism
- Viktor Borisovich Shklovsky (1893 - 1984)
- Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895– 1975)
- Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (1895 – 1970)
- Roman Osipovich Jakobson (1896 – 1982)
- Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922 - 1993)

69. New Crit and Language acts
- I A Richards (1893 1979)
- F R Leavis (1895-1978)
- J R Searle (1932 - )
- J L Austin (1911-1950)

70. Mass leisure and consumerism
- Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929)
- Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966)
- Dean MacCannell *

71. Movies & films, methods, theory and crit
- Sergei Eisentsein (1898-1948)
- Alexander Dovzhenko (1894 – 1956)
- Dziga Vertov (1896-1954)
- Hollywood studio and star systems
- Hollywood and the labour movement

72. Sciences of commerce and human engineering:
- Advertising
- Marketing
- Product and retail design
- Stuart Ewen *

73. Roaring 20s: Youth, gin, media and moral panic

74. Evolution of evolution
- Herbert Spencer (1820 – 1903)
- Leslie Alvin White (1900 – 1975)
- Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. (1881 – 1955)

75. Enter self-help & the managed heart
- Dale Carnegie (1888 - 1955)
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 – 1993)
- Robert Cialdini *
- Miki McGee *

76. Class & mass: Culture and taste wars; the “fate” of radio

77. Games and play
- Johan Huizinga (1872 - 1945)
- Roger Caillois ((1913 – 1978)
- James S Hans *

X. WW II (Atomic bomb)
78. Propaganda, indoctrination and PR: Methods and theory, controlled and uncontrolled experiments

Propaganda
Edward Bernays (1891-1995)
Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
The Committee on Public Information, AKA the CPI and the Creel Committee
John Grierson (1898 - 1972)
Ivy Lee (1877 – 1934)
Harold Lasswell (1902-1978)
Carl Iver Hovland (1912-1961)
Indoctrination
Sleeper Effect
Groupthink
Exposure Effect
- Vladimir Lenin (1870 – 1924)
- Alfred Rosenberg (1893 – 1946)
- Joseph Goebbels (1897 – 1945)
- Jacques Ellul (1912 – 1994)
Propaganda model of Mass Media,
Corporatocracy

79. Empirical, “administrative,” and quantitative research: Evidence of the 2-step flow, communities of interest, and capillary effects
Paul Lazarsfeld
Two-step flow of communication
Elton Mayo
Elihu Katz
- Uses and gratifications
- Paul Felix Lazarsfeld (1901-1976)
- The War of the Worlds (radio) October 30, 1938

80. Critical theory, Freudo-Marxism, false consciousness, the authoritarian personality, reification and the dialectic of Enlightenment
- Max Horkheimer (1895 – 1973)
- Theodore Adorno (1903-1969)
- Georgy Lukacs (1885-1971)
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
- Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979)
- Hanna Arendt (1906 - 1975)


81. Radio method, theory and crit
- Reginald Fessenden vs. Guglielmo Marconi, & all comers
- “Golden years of radio”
- Emergence of formats

82. Media power and controversy
- Orson Welles, War of the Worlds & consequences of Citizen Cane.
- Hadley Cantril, 1906-1969
- Joseph Raymond McCarthy vs. Edward R. Murrow
- Revlon scandal and the $64,000 question

83. Industry regulation (print & movies), community normative standards

84. Needs and gratifications: Limited Effects
- Herta Herzog
- Elihu Katz (1926- )
- George Elton Mayo (1880-1949)

85. Mid-range theory
- Robert King Merton (1910–2003)

86. Weapons of mass destruction, crisis and existence
- Cold War
- Existentialism

87. Comics
- Comics
- Manga
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88. Sputnik, automobiles and automation

89. Animating the inanimate: Reverse engineering reification?
- Hero of Alexandria
- Ibn Ismail Ibn al-Razzaz Al-Jazari
- Automata
- Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
- Athanasius Kircher (1602 – 1680)
- Jacques de Vaucanson (1709 – 1782)
- Pierre Jaquet-Droz (1721-1790)
- Henri Maillardet (1745-?)
- (Johann) Wolfgang von (de Pámánd) Kempelen (1734 -- 1804)
- Karakuri ningyo, Japan, (1700s-1800s)
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 – 1851) & Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818; 2nd Ed, 1838 under author’s name)
- Robotics
- Audio-Animatronics, Walt Disney

90. Consumer society, Populuxe, popcult and Situationism
- Situationist International
- Guy Debord & Society of the Spectacle
- Grant McCracken *
- Thomas Hine *
- Greil Marcus *

91. Comparative media history and critical determinism (Toronto school)
- Harold Adams Innis (1894-1952), Empire and Communications
- Herbert Marshall McLuhan (1911-1981)
- Eric A Havelock (1903-1988), mimesis
- Walter Ong (1912-2003), print culture
- Edmund "Ted" Snow Carpenter (1922 - )
- Robert Babe*
- Neil Postman, media ecology paradigm
- Joshua Meyrowitz, Medium Theory
- Ian Angus *

92. TV method, theory and crit
- Erik Barnouw* (1908-2001)
- Raymond Williams (1921-1988)

93. Information theory
- Claude Shannon (1916 – 2001)
- Norbert Weiner (1894 – 1964)

94. The news and the media democracy movement
- Dewey/Lippmann polemic
- Avram Noam Chomsky (1928 - )

95. Political communication practice, theory and criticism

96. Youth culture: celebrity, fashion, movies and music
- Stewart Ewen*

97. Structuralism, semiosis, semiurgy and semioclasis
- Ferdinand de Saussure (1857 – 1913)
- Jacques-Marie-Émile Lacan (1901 – 1981)
- Claude Levi Strauss (1908 - )
- Louis Althusser (1918 – 1990)
- Roland Barthes (1915 – 1980)
- David Chandler

98. Cultural studies (CCCS, AKA “The Birmingham School”): Ideology, hegemony & resistance, appropriation and re-appropriation
- Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937)
- Raymond Williams
- Stuart Hall (1932 - )
- Dick Hebdige (1951 – )

99. Models from physics and biology
- Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 – 1884)
- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger (1887 – 1961)
- Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901 – 1972)


100. The Invisible College; Palo Alto School: communication, cybernetics and chiasmus
- Gregory Bateson (1904-1980) Palo Alto
- Niklas Luhmann (1927 - 1998)
- Anthony Wilden (1935 - )


101. Pragmatics of communication: Double bind & chorus line
- Paul Watzlawick (1921 - ) Double Bind
- Ronald David Laing (1927 – 1989)
- Anthony Wilden *

102. Phenomenology and drama of the social world
- Alfred Schütz (1899-1959), social constructivism
- Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann *
- Erving Goffman (1922–1982), frames and impression management
- Harold Garfinkel (1917 - )

103. Pornography
- Pornography
- Internet porn
- Carnography
- Cartoon pornography

104. Media Literacy, pedagogy and curricula
• Ivan Illich (1926 - 2002)
- Action Coalition for Media Education Canada
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105. Media access (co-op-, student-, community- e-media: radio, zines, TV; film co-ops, artist run centres etc.)

106. Communication regulation and policy analysis studies

107. New rhetoric & hermeneutics
- Kenneth Burke (1897-1993)
- Richard McKeon (1900-1983)
- Hans Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
- Ernesto Grassi (1902-1991)
- Paul Ricœur (1913 – 2005)
- Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984)
- Jurgen Habermas (1929 - )
- Jean Baudrillard (1927 - 2007)
- Edward Rolf Tufte (1942 - )
- Robert Cialdini
- Foss, Sonja K., et al.*

108. Imitation: Desire and violence; innovation & diffusion;
- René Girard (1923-2005)
- Everett Rogers (1931-2004)

109. Media analysis and criticism
- Enzensberger/Baudriallrd polemic
- George Gerbner (1919 – 2005), the Mean World Syndrome, Cultivation Theory

110. The battle over advertising to children and media regulation (TV ratings)

111. Anthropology and communication
- Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917)
- Bronslaw Malinowski (1884 – 1942)
- Victor Witter Turner (1920 – 1983)
- Clifford Geertz (1926 - 2006)
- Marshall Sahlins (1930 - )
- Dean MacCannell *

112. Social network analysis
- Pierre Bourdieu (1930 – 2002)
- Robert David Putnam (1941 - )

113. Political economy of media
- Dallas Smythe (1907 – 1992)
- Robert W. McChesney (first book, 1993)
- Manufacturing Consent
- Crawford Brough (C.B.) Macpherson (1911 - 1987)
- Concentration of media ownership
- Media democracy
- Media ethics
- Armand Mattelart *

114. User studies, ergonomics and experience design
- Donald Norman *

115. Imaging futures
- Jules Verne (1828 – 1905)
- Yevgeny Zamiatyn (1884 – 1937)
- E M Forester (1879 – 1970)
- Philip K Dick (1928-1982)
- William Gibson (1948 - )
- Neil Stephenson s(1959 - )


XII. INFORMATION SOCIETY, DIGITAL AGE & POST MODERNITY
116. Modern and Postmodern
- Robert Venturi (1925 - )
- Anthony, (Baron) Giddens (1938 - )
- John A. Walker *

117. Post-modern criticisms: Post structuralism; deconstruction; gender, ethnicity and race


118. Information Society
- Fritz Machlup (1902 - 1983)
- Daniel Bell (1919 - )
- Manuel Castells (1942 - ), Network Society
- Jan van Dijk (1952 - ), Digital divide
- Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909 – 2005)
- Alain Touraine (1925- )
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924 – 1998)
- Radovan Richta (1924 - 1983)
- Alvin Toffler (1928 - )
- Self-organization
- Antonio (Toni) Negri (1933 - )

119. Cognitive science

120. Feminism and Gender studies
- Christine de Pizan (1364–1430)
- Olympe de Gouges (born Marie Gouze); (1748 – 1793)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 – 1797)
- The Seneca Falls Convention, 1848
- Dailies, La Voix des femmes, (France, 1848); Soziale Reform, (Germany, 1849).
- Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 – 1928)
- Maud Gonne MacBride (1866 – 1953)
- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)
- Hannah Höch (1889 - 1978)
- Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986)
- Betty Friedan (1921 – 2006)
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
- Luce Irigaray (1930 - )
- Hélène Cixous, (1937 - )
- Julia Kristeva (1941 - )
- Naomi Wolf (1962 - )

121. Communication as intellectual practice
- Fr. Bernard Lonergan, S.J. (1904 – 1984)
- Critical Realism and media research
i. Research methods
ii. Triangulation
- Criticism
- Research methods
- Violence and media research
- Corporate R & D

122. Audience as author: Source proliferation and prosumerware

123. Internet
- Wade Rowland *

124. New technologies, bodies and identities
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908 – 1961)
- Donna Haraway, (1944 - )
- Drew Leder *

125. Dematerialization, Immaterials, & Simulations
- Jean-François Lyotard (1924 – 1998)
- Jean Baudrillard (1929 - 2007)
- Arthur Kroker *
- Marshall Berman *

126. Media wars; wars made for media
- PROs & WWII
- Vietnam
- Granada
- The Balkans
- Gulf Wars I & II

127. Digital divide & rich mobile media lifestyles

128. New media method and criticism

129. Global media, globalization studies: neocolonialism; multinational capitalism; global village, ghetto and cosmopolis
- Frantz Fanon (1925 – 1961)
- Post-colonialism & Post-colonial theory
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (1942 - )
- Manuel Castells (b. 1942 - )

130. Social movements, green consciousness, and media effects

131. Convergence, media permutation, and plenitude

132. Defining communication (Ricorso)

Compiler: R Onufrijchuk, SEPTEMBER 2007.