CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Flac, Propaganda Model, Noam Chomsky

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

Document Summary

Popularized (not invented) by samuel morse in 1800"s. Ex. multiplexing - sending more than one message at once. Observation that a network"s value increases with the number of connections it has. Explains why most people eventually sign up for telephone/email. Value of network increases at square number of connections 0(n 2 ) The value of the network grows as more people join. Not being part of the network = not having access to something increasingly valuable. Learning curve: people learn to use device properly + etiquette. Once popular, demand was high and was hard to keep up with. Overuse of new communication technologies is a recurring problem. Not enough telephone operators to meet demand. Machine instead of human in the middle. The network is unbiased in relation to content being transmitted. Came from common carriage law, railroads can"t charge different prices to different companies. Can"t discriminate based on what they"re saying.