CS100 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Quipu, Arbitrariness, Kinetoscope
20 Dec 2015
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The media of early civilization: key aspects of communication development starting in the ancient. As soon as ancestors made tools of wood, bone and stone, they made tools for thought . Possibly the earliest device was a stick notched to indicate the number of deer in nearby herd: human kind enlarged its sphere of communication by creating communications, communication is an exchange of information and messages. Basis of the worlds first full-fledged writing system: pictogram: a character that looks like what it represents, harold innis. Bulk of work dealt with role of media in the organization of ancient empires and early western civilization. Time and space concept: either temporal or spatial, derived from nature and use of the dominant medium it, space bias involves use of hieroglyphic writing to produce employed calendars, time bias involves administration over distance. The earliest precursor of writing: the token system the significance of tokens with respect to communication, social structures and cognitive skills.
