COMM1020 Lecture Notes - Telegraphy, Johannes Gutenberg, Raymond Williams
Document Summary
Where are we: dynamics of social relationships. Idea of who you are vs. someone else and how you conceive different relationships: public and private, questions of control, regulation and power structures. Not everybody had the power to shape the stories/legends: there was no way to check a historical record able to change stories. Less about the exact replication of history and more about history as myth and parable: because there was no written record of the past, weren"t able to physically see communication across time and space. Communication had to happen in the present moment: shapes the notion of history and progress. Concept of time is in the present with the performance: more of a sense of community. Power structures were with few individuals: writing cultures, less personal form of communication. Instead of gathering together to hear a story: power to the few, usually the church, because not everyone needed to know are be able to write the written language.
