COMS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Oral Tradition, Tumblr, Phoneme

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication and Media Studies
• Course: COMS 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Woo

Document Summary

Oral culture is basically telling story and communicating in such a way we do it as people who still have access to written word. Sensuous and grounded in everyday, practical situations. One symbol = one word or idea: syllabic. Actual languages can combine features of the different writing systems (or even have multiple writing systems, as in japanese). The gutenburg printing press: printing not a new technology in c15, woodcut/woodblock printing, chinese get there first, gutenberg combines three technologies to revolutionize communication, the press, movable type, alphabetic writing system, how it works. The fourth estate and the public sphere: science. Standard reference works with fewer errors: culture. Reading as a leisure practice among more and more people. Functions of print media: transmission of culture, diffusion of ideas and knowledge, entertainment. Print is dead long live reading: o(cid:272)ial (cid:373)edia re(cid:272)reati(cid:374)g (cid:862)oralit(cid:455)(cid:863) withi(cid:374) te(cid:454)t-based platforms: