COMS 200 Lecture 3: Lecture3_may4
5 Sep 2016
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Ex. using the thermometer, it becomes a second nature. No longer questioning how it came to be and the technology behind it. Likewise with media, you are no longer aware of it as we are so used to media. Gitelman argued for a history of media, rather than communications. Interested in media history rather than communications history. Questioning the methods and devices associated with media, the history of media understood as modern ideas and communications . Back to peters: distinction between historicism and constructivist views. In one sense there is an evolution between phonograph and internet tools for recording writing (phonograph records sound and language, internet records words, images ). Gitelman argued that the mysterious connection between the two makes it more interesting. People know how to use the internet, although they don"t understand it (how things are stored, how the internet is made) constructivism. Interested in how we talk about media.
