CS100 Lecture Notes - Print Culture, Photojournalism, Marshall Mcluhan
28 Nov 2012
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Mcluhan question on final exam is false, he does everything but mass media he is more about print, orality, etc. See the rise in the mass in need to leisure and money, system gave them that bit of money. How photography and film participated in creating culture that leads towards the rise celebrity and celebrity culture. Secondary orality: these media after print culture that were speech based: telephone, telegraph to a certain degree, television and radio. Mcluhan: are we moving back to the acoustic state? . Alongside electric media, the 19th century will witness the rise of: Cinematograph writes the movement motion pictures. 1839: first commercial photographic system *(called the daguerreotype) Photography on paper made it possible to reproduce images mechanically. Photographs were slow to be featured regularly in newspapers. Photograph is an extension of you in time. If you look closely you loose resolution. If you are far away it s a image.
