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The Bias of Communication
he relative stability of cultures depends on the balance
and proportion of their media.
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- a key to social change is found in the development of communication
  media.
- each medium embodies a bias in terms of the
  organization and control of information.
- Time-biased media, such as stone and clay, are durable and
  heavy. Since they are difficult to move, they do not encourage territorial
  expansion; however, since they have a long life, they do encourage the
  extension of empire over time.
- Space-biased media are light and portable; they can be transported
  over large distances. They are associated with secular and territorial
  societies; they facilitate the expansion of empire over space. Paper
  is such a medium; it is readily transported, but has a relatively short
  lifespan.
- It was Innis’ conviction that stable societies were able to achieve a
  balance between time- and space-biased communications media.
- He also believed
  that change came from the margins of society, since people on the margins
  invariably developed their own media. The new media allow those on the
  periphery to develop and consolidate power, and ultimately to challenge
  the authority of the centre.
- Oral communication, speech, was considered by Innis to be time-biased
  because it requires the relative stability of community for face-to-face
  contact. Knowledge passed down orally depends on a lineage of transmission,
  often associated with ancestors, and ratified by human contact. In his
  writings, Innis is forthright in his own bias that the oral tradition
  is inherently more flexible and humanistic than the written tradition,
  which he found rigid and impersonal in contrast.

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