Media, Information and Technoculture 2000F/G Midterm: MIT 2000 Midterm Exam Notes

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Corantos (current events) - weekly journals in germany (1609) Samuel buckley, daily courant, 1702 - first daily paper (britain) World - joseph pulitzer (1883) - commercialization of newspaper. Radiotelephone (first voice transmission) - reginald fessenden (1900) Radio act of 1912 (us) - license to be an amateur user/use military lines. Telegraph - morse and vail (first message 1844) Optical telegraph founded by claude chappe (france, 1794) (wooden signal post) Heinrich hertz 1888 - morse code through radio waves. Network radio: at&t (1925) - broadcast simultaneously throughout the country. Radio-telegraph act, 1913 - radio being officially regulated by gov. in canada. Frank conrad/kdka (1920) - broadcasted records out of his apartment. Carry stories that reach last generations, reach little people. Control by those who can read or write. Carry stories that reach large audiences, for limited duration. Weakens power of the elites who were literate before. Alphabetic literacy - large amount of people were literate.

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