CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spoken Language, Oral Tradition
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Early writing systems consequences of shifts (really old new media ): stone to papyrus, oral to literate cultures. Pictographic: pictorial representation of concrete objects (ressembles object it represents) Logographic means a sign of a character representing a word (but, it doesn"t re- semble that which it stands for arbitrary relations between the logo and it"s meaning. Phonographic means a symbol that represents a vocal sound (alphabet) Literacy becomes more accessible because it"s so much easier. Spoken language tied to the spoken language = more accessible and easy fuck ya (allows for the connection of knowledge) In an oral culture, all that is known is all that is known, but when you write, the quantity of available knowledge is massively increased. Innis is a really important figure in the history of communication. He wrote a monumental book in the last two years of his life.
