CHANGING MEDIA THROUGHOUT HISTORYAlthough the changes in the media, and the changes in sociaty that accompany them, may sometimes appear to be radicaly new and different, the media and society have always adapted to one another. In this section we examine how the role of the media has involved as society developed- and vice versa-fromthe dawn of human civilization (see Figure 1.3, page 13) through agricultural industial, and information societies (Bell, 1973; Dizard, 1997; Sloan, 2005).PREAGRICULTURAL SOCIETYBefore agricultural societies developed, most people lived in small groups as hunters of animals and gatherers of plants. These cultures depended on the spoken word to transmit ideas among themselves and between generations. Shamans and storytellers spread the news. The oral tradition is an extremely rich one, bringing to us Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the epic stories, folktelles, ritual chants, and songs of many other cultures. These works that originated in oral forms live on today in the fairy tales and campfire stories that we tell our children.
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