COM 107 Lecture Notes - Armoured Fighting Vehicle, Binary Code, Msnbc
10 Dec 2013
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Invention: a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. Time shifting allows for changing the viewing time of a tv show, started with vcr technology. Analog (radio waves) vs. digital (binary code) tv. Digitization and distribution of film broadcast to a large group of people at the same time. Start with the kinescope, end of wwii 1945-50: introduced to the general public as a mass media. One-sided relationships where one person knows a lot about the other, but not vice versa; feels interpersonal, but is not. Chapter show narrative is contained within one episode. Serial programs narrative is extended across multiple episodes. Late 1940s: adaptation: adapt earlier radio content (amos & andy, the lone ranger, animated series (tom & jerry, looney tunes, anthology dramas/ teleplays (the philco television.
