JOUR 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Netflix, Spotify, Photocopier
8 Dec 2015
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Profoundly shaken/ disrupted work of news industry (journalism) > they are technologies that make other technologies. Explore previous technologies of mass communication (photocopier, 2d printer, etc) Changes to society- society must adapt to the new forms of technology (technological innovation changes society) Writers were paid really well because a lot of people were unable to read + write (illiterate) > romans didn"t believe writing was specialized skill. > egyptian writers were considered of high social status. > people of the church could read + write (ex. Johannes worked for almost two decades trying to perfect this technological theory. > borrows , 000 from johannes fuce? to create a book. > fuce takes over gutenberg"s production line and gets all the money. > pro t and power resides with those who own the printing production. Industrial revolution: printing press, factories, goods, assembly lines, etc. Things mass produced before print. press: coins + rings + bricks.
