october
1996
Note about
October's
front page
about the project
sponsors wanted!,
advisory boards
Connections Pages
Internet resources
grouped by technology
(listed below)
CourseWare
Syllabi, journals,
organizations & more
Timeline
45,000 BCE to
the present
What's New?
New links,
awards & resources
KeyWords
Key concepts
& theorists
early media
oral & scribal culture
print media
printing & publishing, journalism,
photography,
advertising, comics
electric media
telegraphy, telephony,
sound recording
mass media
radio, film, television
digital media
computing
awards
This site has
won some awards
and has been featured
in numerous publications.
since August 14, 1996
Formerly located at the
University of Colorado,
where the site received
28,523 visitors
from 12 June 1995 to
14 August 1996.
Promoting the study of media history
from petroglyphs to pixels
- features
- Noteworthy Book Reviews, reviews compiled from numerous H-Net discussion lists
- Reviews this month: Martin Luther, Women Scriptwriters, Incan Astronomy, Clifford Geertz, & many more!
Special Report: A U.K. computer scientist's labor of love to restore early television broadcast recordings- deadlines
- New! MHP Announcements Board -- Post or review calls for papers, panels, conferences, & other notes on our new Announcements Board!
- August and September 1996 Deadlines for Paper Submissions -- excerpted from a variety of lists
- Grants and Fellowships -- descriptions and deadlines
- Additional Conference Notices -- CFPs and Meeting Announcements
- from our archives
- The Dead Media Project's full-text archives of Dead Media reports.
- New!: CPSR's Community Memory List on the History of Cyberspace. Oral histories of computing from folks who saw it begin!
- The MHP Timeline -- Timeline and image gallery, starting from 45,000 BCE to the present era
- August 1996 features
- chat boards
- New! Now Open! The Media History Project Chatboard is now up and running. Feel free to post queries, swap information, or talk about whatever interests you about media history.
- The Project will be the proud host of the First Virtual Media History Conference, during Spring 1997. Details TBA.
- tools
- Search the Media History Project
- Add Your Name to our Directory of Media History Professionals & Students
- Other Search Engines on the Project
- notices
- Tell the MHP about your journal, conference, or organization!
- The Media History Project invites editors, organizers, and directors to submit monthly or quarterly notices and updates for publication on the site. Please visit the Announcement Board for details, or send e-mail to info@mediahistory.com.
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info@mediahistory.com- Noteworthy Book Reviews, reviews compiled from numerous H-Net discussion lists