UNI101Y1 Lecture Notes - Seefeel
11 Mar 2014
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Voice has a weight when the individual who speaks has an authority Written tradition unity and control over space, but couldn"t elicit agreement. In oral tradition, you can see people nodding, or see/feel their opinions. P130, religion vs culture, unifying element that brings people together. In the sense that something that is used to transmit important messages, information knowledge society wants to instil in its members. When print takes over or when one media predominantly takes over another p187. Steam, allow more, faster, bigger, notion of freedom of the press. Innis: freedom of the press, invented by the people in charge of the press so they could be unchallenged. Sounds like opposite of control, even though press was the dominant way of communicating info. Radio originally: hand radio, broadcast to each other, you don"t have to read, can"t go back to review it like print. Internet: oral to active content creators and participants, but 90% are lurkers hence written quality.
