Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Abbreviation, Pictogram, Bookkeeping

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G
• Professor: kjosen

Document Summary

Wide randrange of different practives after a primitive society comes into contact with a society that is much more technologically advance. Ex) when planes woukld fly over indonesia during ww2. Contact with a new tech that can bring out a great amount of change in sociesties that are less tech advanced. Writing about us to accumulate, verif, correct, knowledge. It was developed independently in several different places. Sumeria (mesopotamia: where people say civilization started, the writing between 2500-(cid:1007)500bc, (cid:1007)500,(cid:1007)(cid:1011)00bc (cid:271)ut (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:396)eall(cid:455) sa(cid:455) fo(cid:396) su(cid:396)e (cid:449)he(cid:374) writing started, no real evidence. The emergence of writing: sumeria: growing economy that was outstripping memory, limitations of human mind and memory, tablets and records of economic life, lists are one of the earliest forms of writing, mathematics, bookkeeping purposes. Important because it represents a link in spoken language: sounds to a specific language, seal + ant = sealant, tree + sun = treason, alphabet translates sound.