JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: The Panic Broadcast, Sept, Wireless Telegraphy

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Journalism and Communication
• Course: JOUR 1001
• Professor: Christopher Dornan

Document Summary

Wireless telegraphy began as an industry for the navies, and an instrument of the military to communicate with ships and planes. Wireless signal rates out from station and everyone in the area of reception with a receiver can hear the signal so it was only a matter of time until amateur enthusiasts started building their own receivers. Went from being an instrument of the military to an instrument of mass communication (same as cpu"s) Personal computer changed the world creation of a community of lobbyists and tinkerers, just like the ham radio operators. Steve wozniak and steve jobs founders of apple (was built by young people invested in the future of a not-yet invented technology. Radio = means of mass communication and public address. Radio interesting and appealing content for audiences is expenses, how can this be monetized (can"t charge admission like a theatre, etc. ) Adopts model of the newspaper advertising becomes revenue base.