Communications

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Communications is written by Raymond Williams and published by Random House. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1473545757 (ISBN 10) and 9781473545755 (ISBN 13).

Williams's fascinating investigation into forms of communication as they stood in 1962 - computers, radio, television, printing, photography, film - remains remarkably relevant today. The idea that reality is primary, and that communication of that reality secondary, is debunked - if we take the view that there is life, and then afterwards accounts of it, we degrade art and learning. Communications are, he argues, a major way in which reality is continually formed and changed. This is Williams's compelling introduction to modern means and institutions of communication.