Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Steganography
15 Jul 2014
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Entropy: gradual loss of structured meaning and information, information decay: complete uniformity of information: info that is more important to us is where all our attention goes, can lose meaning if said too often, disorder of entropy: inserting random words between a paragraph you"ve already written, words do not have meaning anymore, we can produce something random, but eventually we would start to impose order on it and gain meaning from it. More access to info (cid:224) more discussion of ideas and increased literacy (cid:224) more potential criticism of ruling elite idea of authorship, could express own ideas and not just copy old info: work would reach more peple = popularity standardized spelling and alphabet across languages lower cost, more affordable, more literacy. Martin luther: the wiki leaks" of his time, reformation made possible by the printing press, publication of charges against church, criticized the church, beginning of split b/w religious and secular government, democratize info, specifically the bible.
