COMM 1100U Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wireless Telegraphy, Universal Service, Morse Code
13 Jun 2018
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October 12t, 2017
Telegraphy, the Talking Wireless, and Television
Lecture 5
Key terms:
• Telecommunication
• Common carriage
• Symptomatic Technology
Telecommunication
• Tele: at a distance
• Telecommunication requires:
o A means – the objects
o A mode – way information gets packaged up to travel the distance
Telegraph and telephone
• Late 1800s into early 1900s
• Telegraph: morse code – long and short dashes that stand in for words and numbers,
person on the other end take dashes and put it back into words
• Telephone: electronic transmission of sound over distance
• Key contribution to communication history: speed
Telecommunication and ideology
Areas that were altered by these:
• Language and journalism – news reporting and language used. Used shortest possible
words and sentences to get point across. (E. Hemmingway)
• Empire, conflict, war
• Capitalism – business people can communicate quickly, increase supple for wider
demand. Businesses expanded and reached consumer quickly
• Time – time zones
• Socializing and sociality – own kind of long distance relationships
Telecommunication regulation in Canada
• Universal service – if using natural resource of country, basic needs must be made
available for everyone at a reasonable cost
• Common carriage – you cannot discriminate based on what or who you are sending
things to. Everyone pays the same and can use service
• Common carrier
• Rights of way – suggest because universal services are used, they should get access to
public land first because they are universal service provider
Broadcasting
• Rights of way on the electromagnetic spectrum
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Document Summary
Key terms: telecommunication, common carriage, symptomatic technology. Telecommunication: tele: at a distance, telecommunication requires, a means the objects, a mode way information gets packaged up to travel the distance. Areas that were altered by these: language and journalism news reporting and language used. Used shortest possible words and sentences to get point across. (e. hemmingway: empire, conflict, war, capitalism business people can communicate quickly, increase supple for wider demand. Businesses expanded and reached consumer quickly: time time zones, socializing and sociality own kind of long distance relationships. Everyone pays the same and can use service: common carrier, rights of way suggest because universal services are used, they should get access to public land first because they are universal service provider. Broadcasting: rights of way on the electromagnetic spectrum, marconi and wireless telegraphy, 1901: signal hill. The aird commission: lessons learned from films, aird commission: 1929, principals and outcomes, democratic decision-making, professional and institutional prioritization, nation-building: the cbc and cancon.
