MDSA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Daily Telegraph, The Victorian Internet, Selfie Stick
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Week 8: lecture #7 tuesday, february 24, 2015: the gadget lover: narcissus as narcosis. Marshall mcluhan, the extensions of man main argument: anything that extend our reach. Media is anything the extends our reach. Creates a numbness and distance at the same time. Video: inventions that changed the world the telephone 001. Can be on the phone and talk to anyone anytime and anywhere. Pigeons carrying msg for many years, unreliable, dropped msg. Needed some more reliable and didn"t need to carry anything. The visual telegraph; in england can be flash 10 miles apart. Experiment done on monks, fast and it hurts. Samuel mores, wife died cuz news took too long to travel. Morse code and electronic telegraph, dots and dash. Newspaper could run new day paper around the globe. Alfred vail help with morse code and telegraph w/ financing and machinery. Used dots and lines to replace letters vail. Morse barely involve in project but got all the credits.
