Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Lecture Notes - Nell Shipman, Low Culture, Open University
2 Oct 2013
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The creation of the wheel first great piece of technological invention it changed the way we work on this earth. University education was not something for women. Harold innis says that if you control the flow of information if you create the info that becomes part of the flow you are. Cbs and nbc came to the radio world in 1948 then accessing power: ex. Prime minister controls the flow of information could spread false information the ability to buy elections. Certain arrangements are necessary for the flow of info to take place a lot of things were oral not the info made by the. Catholic church in the 1400"s: novices were copying greek, latin, and roman texts press in england, printing is a technological phenomenon. Printing press is also a social phenomenon - brought a concept that people should not only communicate orally but also through writing and reading. Info has a soul it has character.
