SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Media Create, Cave Painting, Satellite Television
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Soc 101 lecture 10: mass media: the transmission of messages by a person or group through a device to a large audience. Mass media: any medium designed to communicate messages to a mass audience. Block printing and movable type: focus on literacy. The telegraph: address geographic locations issues in transmitting messages. Moving pictures: news real before movies to show you what"s going on in the world. Cellphones: changing work experience and work relations, phone always on: night weekend, vacations, changing communications with one another. Text messaging, twitter, blogs, wikis, podcasts, youtube, social networking sites. Every society need to transcend what he called the problems of space and time: record experiences and pass them on to help them out share what we learned. Time biased media: media that have longevity but whose form prevents their transmission over physical distances (e. g. cave art and hieroglyphics) Space biased media: can convey messages readily over physical distance.