MDSA02H3 Lecture 8: Detailed Lecture #8 Notes
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Week 9: lecture #8 tuesday, march 03, 2015. 1893 - budapest, hungry created a telephone system that offered news (verne"s telephonic journalism ) and entertainment programs in the homes of 6,000 subscribers. Focused the attention of the inhabitants on a single experience. Regulated lives in accordance to program schedules. Acted as an alarm by signaling special news announcements. Fin de si cle (end of the century) writer who argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation (weakening), exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and an inability to adjust or to act. Culture was degenerate, and if criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and lunatics were degenerates, so were the authors and artists of the era. Extension of media is an extension of our nervous system. Remediation: understanding new media (mit press, 2000) By jay david bolter and richard grusin. Representation of an object, a thing, an idea or communicatory act.
