MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Nuclear Family, Consumerism, Industrial Revolution
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Frustraing to watch the black & white colours, and feeling like you"re not geing the full perspecive. Samuel morse didn"t invent it, but he made it marketable. The telegraph is a communicaions device that sends informaion in the form of electric signals along wires. Technological determinism is the idea that technological innovaions determine the direcion of the culture. Technological convergence refers to a merging of content across diferent media plaforms. Media convergence refers to an economic strategy in which various bodies (usually companies) consolidate media holding under one corporate umbrella. From 1840 to 1910 the telegraph, news, informaion services, and stock markets became closely aligned in a sort of media convergence. The telegraph marks the beginning of the informaion age. Someone would have to walk all the way to desinaion to send message before telegraph. Rail is already a deined area to set up telegraph post. News from europe reached canada and the usa.
