User:Sansoko/workspace/History of communication

This important topic has been much neglected, possibly because the existing structure is somewhat limited. I propose re-structuring this article chronologically as significant periods of human communicaton history: prehistorical periods, periods of antiquity, middle ages, early and late modern. Within each broad chronological heading, a discussion of communication history could include social, political and economic factors that influenced and enabled communications, the media and inscribing tools (communications technologies), and key thinkers and innovators in communications history.

There could be other histories of commmunication in other global regions, so this article could be comprehensive enough to include such histories in China, India, Central and South Americas, or it could focus on the histories of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and be renamed as such. One good preliminary reference to a history of communication in these latter three regions is Harold Innis' The Bias of Communication