CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cursus Publicus, Palimpsest, Turing Machine

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Jeremy Packer

Document Summary

Firstly there is an information source which selects one message per unit of time from the either enumerable-discrete or innumerable-continuous quantity of possible messages. Secondly this source supplies one or more transmitters which process the message via suitable coding into a technical signal (something which is quite impossible in the discrete case without intermediate data storage). Thirdly these transmitters feed a channel which safeguards the transmission of the signal in space and/or time from physical noise and/or hostile interference. Fourthly these channels lead to one or more receivers which reconstitute the message from the signal by subjecting it to a decoding algorithm inverse to that of the transmitter, so that finally, Fifthly, the retranslated message arrives at the address of an information drain. Written history: speech, scripts (pictographs, syllabic or phonemic signs), storage and transmission, encryption and post, physical variable relating to writing implements and writing surface decided as to the space and time frame of the communication.