CMST 3H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Longitudinal Study, Bell Canada, Deconstruction
12 Feb 2018
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Sound technologies, the telephone (imaginary) facebook research project. What social forces/structures made them the targetted users. How did they actually use the telephone: the culture of the telephone we look at the ways people have used them. Def: a collection of historical sources; a place where sources are collected: a part in finding primary sources one of the challenges is to find what kinds of sources have survived where you can address these questions. Two definitions one is an actual place to go, but another is a collection of sources. Constructing an archive/encountering sources: assignment 2. Sources: bell canada historical collection, letters, newspapers, diocese of montreal archives. Finding archives/documents: evaluation/analysis, a sort of craft. Interpretation way : sterne (2010): traces do not provide unmediated access to the past in any simple. Practice practice practice: other considerations, context, dig deep, reliability, digging more where the texts come from, make connections.
