MC 2000 Chapter : The Culture Of Journalism

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Oral and written forms: oral traditions passed by poets, teachers, and tribal storytellers, once the written alphabet was created, the wealthy used manuscripts to convey society, oral debates were a way to discuss public issues. The printed word: the printing press introduced the first mass marketed product in history: books, paved the way for major social and cultural changed by transmitting knowledge across national boundaries. Invention of the telegraph (1840"s) began instantaneous information: rise of film (early 1900s), radio (1920s), television (1950s) and the internet (1990s) continued the trend. Shifting values in culture: pre-modern period (pre 1800s, peasants, merchants, farmers, local communication reach, relied on oral comm. And the pen (home: believed in natural or divine order, oral and print based, controlled by political parties. Modern (1800s-1950s) industrial revolution: factory workers, managers, national ceo"s, national communication reach, relied on print/ electronic and typewriter (home) Individualism, rationalism, anti-tradition: point passed controlled by publishing families.

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