CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cheap Repository Tracts, Wireless Telegraphy, Reginald Fessenden
5 Feb 2018
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Theorists: engels and marx, williams (in class, althusser, gramsci (in class, adorno and horkheimer, mulvey, today: hall, bourdieu. 1830s a number of competing companies race to build systems that send pulses via electric wire. Samuel morse and his team develop morse code. 1866 first transatlantic cable: connects us to uk, takes about 10 years for to make it work successfully. 1894 gugliel(cid:373)o mar(cid:272)o(cid:374)i (cid:271)uilds o(cid:374) pre(cid:448)ious theoreti(cid:272)al (cid:449)ork to de(cid:448)elop (cid:862)(cid:449)ireless telegraph(cid:455)(cid:863: first person to actually build wireless telegraphy that actually works. 1900 a canadian, reginald fessenden, transmits voice via wireless telegraphy. Radio: more revolutionary than the printing press, news & information only as fast than people can go. 1910s amateur radio takes off around the world. The airwaves are framed as a public good. Broadcasters must pay licenses to use the airwaves: airwaves belong to the people, to use them they must pay a license, must (cid:862)gi(cid:448)e so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:271)a(cid:272)k to the people.
