From Big Bang to Big Data: A History of the Media

Does media history really start with a bang? More than just newspapers, television, and social networks, media are the means by which any information is communicated, from cosmic radiation traces to medieval church bells to modern identity documents. Cultures are held together as much by bookkeeping and records as they are by stories and myths.

From Big Bang to Big Data is a long history of the media – how it has been established, used, and transformed from the beginning of recorded time unt...