Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture : MIT 2000. doc

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

Document Summary

Imagine oral culture- culture with no knowledge of writing or even the possibility of writing. By storing knowledge outside the mind with writing and print- it downgrades the wise old man and women who knew things based only from memory. Text frees the mind of its memory work. September 11, 2012: monopoly of knowledge: if you give enough people enough incentive and money they will consolidate. 1960"s- rush to make media studies programs in schools: marshall mcluhan: the medium is the message, contemporary: ano hart, james carey. Office hours: ncb 446b, every thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm. E-mail: ageorg26@uwo. ca: come prepared with 2 questions based on the tutorial readings readings are broken up into lecture readings and tutorial readings. Lecture focused on oral development: how our society functioned with oral communication, historical perspective- how oral wordings were how they discussed music, poems. Lecture readings:: in various societies- story tellers is how communications were carried out, they sang out stories.