kommunikationshistorik
Kommunikationshistorik, or communication history, is the scholarly study of how humans transmit and interpret information across time. The field treats communication as a social practice embedded in technologies, institutions, languages, and cultures. It examines how methods of conveying messages—from oral speech and script to printing, telegraphy, radio, television, and digital networks—shape everyday life, economic organization, politics, and knowledge production. It also analyzes how societal structures influence communication, including literacy, gender, class, race, and policy.
The scope covers ancient to modern periods, and includes both technological innovations and the cultural practices
Methodologically, kommunikationshistorik relies on primary sources such as manuscripts, letters, newspapers, corporate and state archives, as
The field aims to illuminate how communication technologies enable and constrain social change, and to provide