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Historical and Cultural Context Chapter 3 © 2009, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. CHAPTER OUTLINE • Language • Writing • Printing • Conquering Space and Time: The Telegraph and Telephone • Capturing the Image: Photography and Motion Pictures • News and Entertainment at Home: Radio and Television Broadcasting • The Digital Revolution • Mobile Media • Concluding Observations 2 LANGUAGE • Major development in evolution of human race • Oral cultures required good memories • Knowledge and information base grew slowly • Accuracy was a challenge • Record keeping was difficult 3 WRITING • As the need for better record-keeping grew, two problems needed to be solved: – What symbols to use to represent sounds/ideas – On what surface to record these symbols 4 Sign Writing vs. Phonetic Writing • Sign writing – Graphic symbols represent objects, sounds, ideas • Chinese pictographs; Egyptian hieroglyphics • Phonetic writing – Symbols represent sounds, grouped to make words, grouped to make sentences • Phoenician alphabet 5 ... - tailieumienphi.vn
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