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Historical and Cultural Context
Chapter 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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