SOC 3116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wireless Telegraphy, Morse Code, Short Circuit

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3116
• Professor: Tonio Sadik

Document Summary

To highlight that the ict"s of today are entirely rooted in those before them. To create a linkage between the role of the internet today and our past experiences with traditional media. Traditional media: newspaper, radio, television (there are other forms as well) The telegraph; known as the first electronic ict. The printing press; gutenberg (mechanical as opposed to electronic) From a print shop in germany, this form of printing had spread to 270 cities by the end of the 1400s. Production in western europe generated (by the turn of the century) 20 million reproductions. In the following century; it"s estimated that there is somewhere between. Gains a sense of regular readership (can be associated to modern day with subscriptions etc) Production by today"s standards is very limited including information, access to any forms of publication. The emergence of the newspaper marks and important turning point in the access to information. An important step towards the democratization of knowledge.