Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Smoke Signal, Super Slow, Cultural Homogenization

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

Document Summary

Code book: software , paris toulon 760km: how long to send message, other lines (strasbourg, brussels, military use, nationalism/ nation state, exclusive state use (france, drawbacks the number of characters you put up, super slow, this only ever worked. Telegraph systems: optical telegraph, 5 10 characters/min, 0 13 hours daily/summer, many dozens of skilled employees, electrical telegraph, 60 per minute, 24 hours, 10+ times volume of information, handful of skilled employees. Telegraph operations: central offices, messenger boys, reply mechanism, send messages/ verify receipt, short hand lexicon built their own kind of lexicon, network socializing communicated in their own way so its kind of a socializing. Telephone: voice transmission could talk back and forth, could not do that with the telegraph, bi directional, real time, unskilled users users are unskilled, women who work there are low skilled, minimally medicated, rapid growth.