POL 607 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Global Issue, Film Studio, October Revolution
6 Mar 2013
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Big impact of printing would be rise of capitals (capitalism: allowed to print out contracts & other things. Political impact was rise of democracy: books were printed, university students learned about philosophy written by any philosophers, other stuff were printed which encouraged democracy. Europeans began to realize that things were not appointed by god because it wasn"t in print. All the electronic form of media had significant impact on politics. It didn"t allow communication to be travelled to another place without wires being connected: didn"t allow any underwater wiring, had lot of disadvantages. Wireless telegraph is the early name for radio: u can communicate without physical connection, us defense dept. developed it to be able to have communication between onshore office and offshore office (such as a ship) Films were introduced which also impacted politics: countries would use film to sell a particular political message, hitler built a massive movie studio outside and made movie that was anti-british & anti-
