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crl-15107	Welburn, William C.	Lacy, Dan. From Grunts to Gigabytes: Communications and Society. Urbana, Ill.: Univ. of Illinois Pr., 1996. 193p. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 0-252-02228-9); $13.95 paper (ISBN 0-252-06531-X). LC 95-32512.	1997-01-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1764	150	42	Beginning with the human capacity for speech and its transformation into communities held together by orality, Lacy traces the history of communication in European and Anglo-American cultures along a single line: from oral to written culture, and from writing to printing, and the emergence of new media in the late 1800s through the twentieth century. As useful as his work is for understand- ing the development of communication in Europe and the United States, it is less relevant to understanding commu- nication systems in other cultures.	cache/crl-15107.pdf	txt/crl-15107.txt