Is Inis the same as innis?

The two are the same, because innis (also translated as Inis or INNIS) is a Canadian economic historian and a pioneer of Toronto Communication School. His representative works include the Deviation between Communication and Empire and Communication.

Innis's main media theory is media bias theory, and innis divides media into time bias media and space bias media. The former is a medium with heavy texture and strong durability, such as sticky paper, stone, parchment, etc., which is more suitable for overcoming the obstacles of time and can be preserved for a long time, while the latter is a medium with light texture and easy transportation, such as papyrus and white newspaper, which is more suitable for overcoming the obstacles of space.

Innis believes that the appearance of media will change or influence the process and history of culture.

Development and communication are related to social stability. Innis believes that time-biased media is helpful to establish authority and form a hierarchical social system; Space-oriented media is conducive to long-distance management and extensive trade, to the expansion of the empire, and thus to the formation of a centralized social system without hierarchy.