TY - BOOK AU - Hassan, Robert TI - Philosophy of Media: A Short History of Ideas and Innovations from Socrates to Social Media SN - 9781138908338 U1 - N26.56 PY - 2017/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Mass Media KW - Philosophy N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; 1. Problems and Debates in Media: From antiquity to Modernity ......13 The Disruptive power of the Written word ....15 The media of Politics ......30 Encoding the Universe ........44 The Question of Objectivity.....62 Automata and the Metaphor of the Machine ......81 Form, Matter and simulation .............101 2. The new age of Digital Reason ....123 Analogue and Digital ...............125 Technological Determinism .........144 Global media Society .......158 End of Modern Politics..............174 Technological Innovation and Time ............190 Digitality and an Ethic of Responsibility .....209 ER -