Messages, Meaning, and Symbols: The Communication of Information

摘要

Messages, meaning, and symbols is a primer on the world of communication. In 250 pages, Meadow discusses the history and future, means and medium, theory and practice, and consequences and implications of this thing we call communication-quite the tall order for 250 pages, hence "primer." Meadow notes the target audience is undergraduate students and a general readership. He also notes that the book is meant to address the fundamentals of the communication of knowledge and information. He declares from the outset that it is not an in-depth study of any particular medium or theory. In all these things, he is correct.