CCT109H5 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sousveillance, Amateur Professionalism, Social Epistemology
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Origins of writing: writing is the greatest inventions of all time, humans are active creators of meaning. The word cat , everyone thinks of the same thing. Symbols: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, process of encoding: transformation of speech (oral) and thought into symbols. Diebert reading: epistemology: epistemology is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. In print culture, private reading mixed with and encouraged new forms of literary intimacy and explorations of the self. Print was also a major factor in the development of the sense of personal privacy that marks modern society. In sum, the gradual rise of individualism as both a prevailing symbolic form and a predominant moral idea flourished in the printing environment. The mass production of printed material favored newly circulating notions of authorship, copyright, while the portability of printed books facilitated the trend toward silent, private reading and intellectual isolation.
