[COM 1000] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (89 pages long)
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First big mass media event was the lincoln assassination telegraph. Andrew jackson battle of new orleans war of 1812 was already over; lead to. Initial witness reports are almost always wrong invention of telegraph. First tv signal of any strength was of hitler at the olympics. The tribal era: oral cultures bonded by stories and rituals, reliance on spoken word made hearing the dominant sense, prevailed until 2000 b. c. The literate era: phonetic alphabet invented, for the first time, select individuals have access to mass messages, linear written communication cultivated linear thinking, prevailed until 1450 a. d. The print era: printing press invented, for the first time, nearly everyone has access to mass messages, mass produced written communication cultivates homogeneity, prevailed until 1850 a. d. The electronic era: telegraph perfected; leads to telephone, radio, television, (cid:862)glo(cid:271)al (cid:448)illage(cid:863) is (cid:272)reated 600 million see 1st (cid:373)oo(cid:374) (cid:449)alk, 2. 5 (cid:271)illio(cid:374) see dia(cid:374)a"s funeral, new technologies improve ability to multitask but erode ability to focus attention.
