CCT109H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Radar Gun, Police Radio, Arpanet

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Mobility without mayhem: safety, cars, and citizenship ch. 4; packer reading: Instant communication around the globe starts to happen: countries start to build up competing telegraph systems, to strengthen economic and military hold on their colonies, 3 different signals, as opposed to 98 signals from more complex morse code. Phonograph gramophone (1877: captures, stores, and reproduces sound (collecting, storing, and processing of data, captu(cid:396)es a(cid:272)tual sou(cid:374)d (cid:449)a(cid:448)es, (cid:374)ot hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) of (cid:374)oise. Technology determinist: believes technology is going to go a certain way, ex. machines will dominate us, etc. never a middle ground, expected to have flying cars by now, not just a one-way possibility, many different routes. New media vs. old media: political economy is a major influence of communication and media research, commodification of audiences, karl marx; commodification of world, criticizes capitalism. Look at (cid:449)hat does a(cid:374)d does(cid:374)"t (cid:449)o(cid:396)k: networks of communication and information transfer, production of contents, policy, how does government interact, history of media.