Media, Information and Technoculture 3376F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Analytical Engine, Vannevar Bush, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3376F/G
• Professor: Jennifer Martin

Document Summary

Before we talk digital communication, it can be important to remember why we communicate in the first place and how digital communication feeds into communication more generally. First, a basic overview of how we got to where we are today. It(cid:859)s (cid:374)o g(cid:396)eat (cid:396)e(cid:448)elatio(cid:374) that (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374) is hugely i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t to us. Digital communication is fundamentally an expansion of mediated communication that gives us new options for communicating, storing, and accessing information. Let"s have a look at how digital communication began. This (cid:449)eek(cid:859)s lesso(cid:374) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)es looki(cid:374)g at so(cid:373)e of the histo(cid:396)y of digital (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)u(cid:374)i(cid:272)atio(cid:374) so (cid:449)e (cid:272)a(cid:374) think through how we got to where we are today. We"ll then have a look at where we"ve wound up and start looking at some of the big ticket issues around how we communicate today. Mu(cid:374)day(cid:859)s a(cid:272)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)t sets out a (cid:396)a(cid:374)ge of (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges that ha(cid:448)e (cid:373)o(cid:448)ed us th(cid:396)ough the de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t and rise of digital communication.