MDSA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Steve Breen, Konrad Becker, Dictaphone
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Research question: what is the relationship between technological change and cultural change? . Media continually tell us that each new media technology is new! The more we claim that present capabilities are unprecedented, the more we oblige ourselves to study the past, otherwise how do we know what is or is not unprecedented? . Paul duguid, search before grep: a progress from closed to open? . As suggested by the image above (figure 1) and indicated by the cartoon grand avenue (figure 2), many so-called new media and technologies have historical antecedents. The town crier, the cartoon suggests, served the same cultural function as twitter. Grand avenue by steve breen and mike thompson. An article published in the new york times describes similarities between twitter and telegraphy: http://www. nytimes. com/2009/08/03/opinion/03schott. html?_r=1& Media is often thought of in terms of technology, but for our purposes it also includes cultural practices .