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Harold Innis  

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  • 1894–1952 Canadian Media Theorist Harold Adams Innis pioneered the study of media by writing an economic history of communication. He enunciated the first systematic medium theories about how media can bias the quality and quantity of information—how a living society communicates, who controls information in the living society, and what we remember of the society after it collapses. [Source: Encyclopedia of New Media; Innis, Harold]

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