HUMA 1780 Study Guide - Final Guide: Screw Press, Psychodynamics, Upper Class
28 Jan 2014
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What are stories?- involves reality, imagination, and memory/author(s)/various. Computer and internet (social media, computer games, virtual reality) Agricultural society- writing: 3000 bce: bronze age: first writing in mesopotamia (sumerians). Egypt; harappan culture in indus valley; and crete (minoans) undeciphered; may be protowriting/ china: 1200 bce (before common era)/ 700 bce: greeks rediscover writing adapting phoenecian script/ 1200 ce (common era): medieval period: still copying by hand. Industrial society- 1700ce industrial society; mass production; move from rural to urban. Invention printing: of moveable metal type of individual letters: mass production of religious literature, spread of literacy. Industrialization and literate skilled workers by 1900"s: telephone, radio, film, tv. Narratives across media by ryan: stories are dependent on the medium but to what extent?/ Media differ in their expressive and communicative power (built in properties affect stories)/ the media embodies the semiotic substance of the narrative, not just hollow conduits.
