Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Betty Friedan, Pierre Trudeau, Imagined Community
22 Mar 2016
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Publicaions were about social behaviour, arts, high culture. Early form: academic/scholarly journals: philosophical transacions of the royal society. Modestly popular magazines: resemble books, early newspapers, ofered comment, criicism and saire , daniel defoe"s review (1704, joseph addison"s spectator (1711) Aimed at male and female audiences: not necessarily important social issues, weren"t meant to address social issues were meant to relect what the upper. Increasingly moved towards an exclusively female model social classes saw as important. Nova-scoia magazine and comprehensive review (1789-1792: reprints from us, britain, canadian icion/poetry. Took aricles from briish or us magazines and copied them. Didn"t last very long failed due to high producion costs, low readership (people couldn"t read at a high level), poor transportaion and communicaions systems. Geing the publicaions to their subscribers and marketplaces were extremely diicult had to rely on the postal system, which hadn"t yet been paired with the railway. Compeiion with newspapers newspapers were linked to the project of democraizaion in.
