Harold Innis citáty

Harold Adams Innis byl kanadský mediální teoretik, historik ekonomie a politický ekonom.

Byl profesorem na univerzitě v Torontu. Jeho filozoficko-ekonomicko-historický přístup k lidské komunikaci měl mimořádný vliv na teorii masové komunikace a mediální studia a získal název Torontská škola. Jeho nejslavnějším žákem se stal Marshall McLuhan, řada jeho známých teorií pramení právě z méně známého Innisova díla. Svou teorii komunikace rozvinul především v knihách Empire and Communications a The Bias of Communication. V Kanadě je rovněž vlivný jeho popis ekonomického vývoje Kanady. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. listopad 1894 – 8. listopad 1952
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“A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.”

Harold Innis kniha Empire and Communications

2007 edition, p. 29.
Empire and Communications (1950)
Kontext: The significance of a basic medium to its civilization is difficult to appraise since the means of appraisal are influenced by the media, and indeed the fact of appraisal appears to be peculiar to certain types of media. A change in the type of medium implies a change in the type of appraisal and hence makes it difficult for one civilization to understand another.

“The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.”

Conclusion, p. 393.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)
Kontext: Canada emerged as a political entity with boundaries largely determined by the fur trade. These boundaries included a vast north temperate land area extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific and dominated by the Canadian Shield. The present Dominion emerged not in spite of geography but because of it.

“The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.”

Industrialism and Cultural Values p. 139.
The Bias of Communication (1951)

“The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.”

Harold Innis kniha Empire and Communications

2007 edition, p. 31.
Empire and Communications (1950)
Kontext: Graham Wallas has reminded us that writing as compared with speaking involves an impression at the second remove and reading an impression at the third remove. The voice of a second-rate person is more impressive than the published opinion of superior ability.

“The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West.”

Minerva's Owl (1947), an address to the Royal Society of Canada, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 10.
The Bias of Communication (1951)

“We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.”

Conclusion (1930) of The Fur Trade in Canada, (1970 edition), p. 392.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)

“The history of Canada has been profoundly influenced by the habits of an animal which very fittingly occupies a prominent place on her coat of arms.”

The Beaver (1930) Part I of The Fur Trade in Canada, (1970 edition), p. 3.
The Fur Trade in Canada (1930)

“The discovery of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century implied the beginning of a return to a type of civilization dominated by the eye rather than the ear.”

Industrialism and Cultural Values (1950), a paper presented at meetings of the American Economic Association in Chicago, published in The Bias of Communication (1951) p. 138.
The Bias of Communication (1951)