ENG-3803 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Intentionality, Red Entertainment, Wireless Telegraphy
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Especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection. Same wires laid down for telegraph were used for telephone. Constraints: charged by word, no punctuation, limited location, form of language; context. Anybody, male or female could be a telegrapher. System that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound using wire or radio. The tech placed upon textuality: access to other info (music, news, etc), ephemeral, intentionality in meaning/understanding. Rotary phones were designed to slow you down. Wireless shifted the end point to multiple users. Radios were closely associated with a business: money to maintain via advertisement (cid:862)the de(cid:272)ade of the radio(cid:863) (cid:1005)9(cid:1006)(cid:1004)s. The first network: nbc (red = entertainment, blue = news) Effect: radio homogenized language due to announcers using flat mid-west speech. First radios were all am, reflected by nature, further possible range, lower range normally. Popular (cid:272)ulture is for the (cid:373)asses a perpetual(cid:271)us (cid:373)a(cid:374) s holiday.
